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Complete Book of Chinese Antiquities1 contains three volumes, over four million words, and 5,000 pictures, of which about 4,000 are color plates. It nearly covers every aspect of Chinese cultural relics, including 17 classifications, which are bronze ware, earthenware, stoneware, jade ware, chinaware, wood ware, lacquer ware, ironware, gold and silver ware, glassware, textile products, coins & legends, paintings, calligraphy, sculpture, ancient constructions, and objects of bones, teeth, horns, or clams. It is mainly compiled by professionals with Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Department of Archaeology, and Peking University, describing the development and evolution of Chinese ancient cultural relics from the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age to the Ming and Qing Dynasty, as well as the new discovery and achievements on cultural relics archeology. A great many data are released for the first time, and there are a lot of contents not seen in other books. All cultural relics cited in the book are classic and quite representative. It is a scientific and systematic book easy to understand, acting as a huge authoritative cultural relic dictionary. As a treasure of data, it clearly expresses the overview, development and evolution of cultural relics in orders based on different time and classifications.