Nested rock crystal and jade coffin-shaped containers for sarira (crystal lid open), Famen Temple, Fufeng, Shaanxi province

The foregoing chapters have described in broad strokes the history of China’s jade-working industry from Neolithic times to the early centuries CE. This chapter is intended to serve as both an epilogue to the history charted in these chapters and a brief introduction to the subsequent two millennia, a story perhaps better told through the later jades in the Ernest B. and...