内容简介

　　自雇工匠、受薪工匠、合约工匠、学徒工匠、服役工匠、刑徒工匠、奴隶工匠，是这些真实具体的男女工匠，创造了秦汉中国。李安敦教授透过本书，带领我们了解这些活生生的人以及他们所处的复杂的社会、商业和技术网络，让我们从走马观花中停下脚步，开始体悟千年前的物质文化遗产背后，有着与当下的你我一样的人性。

　　作者介绍

　　[美]李安敦（Anthony J.Barbieri-Low），美国普林斯顿大学中国艺术史与考古学博士，现任美国加州大学圣巴巴拉分校历史系教授，研究方向为秦汉史（社会、经济、法律、物质文化）、埃及学（比较史学）。

　　译者介绍

　　林稚晖，香港浸会大学历史系博士，现任香港理工大学中国文化学系讲师，研究方向为中国古代性别史、日常生活史、中国古代科学与技术。

　　精彩书评

　　秦汉是一个充满了美学化的物质制作的世界……大一统造成的国家财力之集中，官僚制导致的中产阶层的出现，以及为服务这新的社会结构所构建的新的象征系统，使秦汉的物质文化景观，无论形态、规模还是分布的范围，都与商周的截然有别……以物质文化或艺术史为视角，揭示并感受这制度化生产中的人性之纬，李安敦教授的《秦汉工匠》一书，乃是目前唯一的一部。……同时，本书亦是一部可称“如何把沉默的人造物转化为言语性史料”的方法论示范。

　　——缪哲（著名美术史学者，浙江大学教授）

　　李安敦教授厘清了工匠的社会位置以及官方资助和法律限制对其产品带来的影响。本书在在呈现了我们博物馆中的精品，是在怎样的条件下制作出来的。

　　——鲁惟一（著名汉学学者，英国剑桥大学教授）

　　透过博物馆的玻璃展柜鉴赏中国的漆器、青铜器、石塑像，人们会好奇这些装饰精美的碗盏和器具是如何制作的。虽然本书在器物制作方法上着墨不多，但李安敦教授打开了一个全新的领域，带我们超越一件器物或一座建筑的物理特点、男女工匠的生活，进入复杂且隐匿极深的早期中国社会。

　　——罗森（著名考古学学者、美术史学者，英国牛津大学教授）

　　本书是对早期帝制中华文明时期手艺、工业组织的全新且权威的研究。无疑也是近25年来，对汉代社会经济史最重要的英文专著。

　　——罗泰（著名考古学学者、美术史学者，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校教授）

Content introduction

Self-employed artisans, salaried artisans, contract artisans, apprentice artisans, service artisans, convict artisans, slave artisans are these real and concrete men and women artisans, creating Qin and Han China. Through this book, Professor Anton Lee takes us to understand these living people and the complex social, commercial and technological networks in which they live, allowing us to stop our glance and begin to realize that behind the material cultural heritage of thousands of years ago, there is a humanity just like you and me today.

Introduction of the author

Anthony J. Barbieri-low, Ph.D. in Chinese art history and archaeology from Princeton University, is currently a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include the history of the Qin and Han Dynasties (society, economy, law, material culture) and Egyptology (comparative history).

Translator's introduction

Lin Zhihui, Ph.D., Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University, is currently a lecturer at the Department of Chinese Culture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include gender history in ancient China, history of daily life, and ancient Chinese science and technology.

Wonderful book review

The Qin and Han Dynasties were a world full of aesthetic material production... The concentration of national financial resources caused by the Great unification, the emergence of the middle class caused by the bureaucracy, and the new symbolic system built to serve this new social structure made the material and cultural landscape of the Qin and Han Dynasties completely different from that of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in terms of form, scale and distribution. From the perspective of material culture or art history, the book "Craftsmen of Qin and Han Dynasties" by Professor Li Anton is the only one to reveal and feel the human nature of this institutionalized production. ... At the same time, this book is also a methodological demonstration of how to transform silent artifacts into verbal historical materials.

-- Miao Zhe (famous art historian, Professor of Zhejiang University)

Professor Lee clarified the social position of artisans and the impact of official funding and legal restrictions on their products. This book presents the conditions under which the masterpieces of our museum are produced.

-- Lu Weiyi (famous Sinologist, Professor of Cambridge University)

Looking at Chinese lacquerware, bronzes and stone statues through the museum's glass display cases, one wonders how these beautifully decorated bowls and utensils were made. Although this book does not dwell on the method of making objects, Professor Lee opens up a whole new field, taking us beyond the physical characteristics of an object or a building, and the lives of the men and women artisans, into the complex and deeply hidden world of early Chinese society.

-- Rosen (renowned archaeologist, art historian, Professor at the University of Oxford)

This book is a new and authoritative study of the craft and industrial organization of early imperial Chinese civilization. It is undoubtedly the most important English monograph on the social and economic history of the Han Dynasty in the past 25 years.

-- Luo Tai (famous archaeologist, art historian, professor at the University of California, Los Angeles)