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This updated edition contains expanded coverage of modern and contemporary art, from the fall of the empire in 1911 to the growing international inter...
Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China
Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be ...
Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China
Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China...
Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China is not simply a survey of sixteenth-century images, but rather, a thorough and thoughtful examination of ...
The Social Art of Wen Zhengming
This book takes an innovative approach to one of the great figures of Chinese culture, the writer and painter Wen Zhengming (1470–1559). Renowned as...
Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644
History of art / art & design styles....
A history of the reception of Chinese painting from the sixteenth century to the present What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the...
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"This book treats export art and design from a new standpoint. It is discussed in the context of its production in the highly developed craft market w...
Royal Art and Power in Ming China
Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy – relatives of the emperors – in Min...
Art Objects in Ritual and Daily Life
This book explores China's past in a new way. It shows how art objects were used in Chinese culture -- in sumptuous burials, in temples, in the elegan...
This study of Chinese furniture, based on the V&A s important collection, ranges from lacquered furniture attributed to the workshops of the Imperial ...
The T. T. Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art
Taking the V & A's Chinese collection as its starting point, this book shows how art objects were used by the Chinese in sumptuous burials, in temples...
Treasures from the Forbidden City