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Preface Fang Qin 5

Director's Forward JoshYiu 7

Brief Analysis of the Identity and Ranking of the Tomb Owner of Jiuliandun (Abstract) Fang Qin, Zhai Fuwen 9

On Chu State,Chu Culture and Chu Jades Ji Kunzhang 17

A study on jades from Jiuliandun Xu Xiaodong 24

Discussion on the Functions of Tiger-shaped Jades in the Eastern Zhou Period Yang Jing 39

In Search for the Roots - Jade Dragons from the mid-Warring States Period kept at the Palace Museum in Taipei Tsai Ching Liang 55

Catalogue 56

Part 1-Influence from theCentral Plains: Zeng and Chu jades from the late Western Zhou to early WarringStates period

Part 2-Style of the Churegion: Jades from Jiuliandun Tombs No.1 and 2

Part 3-Jade Alteration

Bibliography 211

Decoration Patterns 215