中国雕塑十分古老,对于中国古代雕塑研究来讲,却是新的领域,它的研究历程也不过百年。20世纪初的一些外国学者,如日本的大村西崖、常盘大定、关野贞,法国的伯希和(Paul Pelliot),瑞典的喜龙仁(Osvald Siren)等对 Chinese sculpture is very old, for the study of ancient Chinese sculpture, but it is a new area, its research process but also a hundred years. Some foreign scholars at the beginning of the 20th century, such as Japan’s Kimura Nishikya, Tokiwa Osamu, Kumano Kishino, France’s Paul Pelliot, Sweden’s Osvald Siren, and others