Orientalsk kunst

Winner of the Shimada Prize for Outstanding Work of East Asian Art HistoryBy the end of the sixth century CE, both the royal courts and the educated elite in China were collecting …

Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which …

Despite China’s long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse of antiquity prior to the Song period (960–1279) demonstrated …

Winner of the 2006 Shimada Prize from the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Kyoto, JapanWinner of the 2006 John …

Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in China’s calligraphic canon. Apparently marking the burial of a crane, the large inscription, datable …

In this generously illustrated volume, the distinguished teacher, author, and critic Joyce Brodsky brings together works by the expatriate Chinese painter Yun Gee and his Chinese …

In the 1890s, the Danish lieutenant Ole Olufsen set out to lead two expeditions to Tsarist Central Asia. Exploring areas that were still blank on European and Russian maps, the …

The social and economic rise of the chungin class (“middle people” who ranked between the yangban aristocracy and commoners) during the late Choson period (1700–1910) ushered in a …

A guided tour through centuries of exquisitely crafted objectsWith over 250 color illustrations, this companion volume to Claudia Brown's Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644–1911 …

Hakuho Sculpture is the first book in any language devoted entirely to Japanese sculpture of the Hakuho period (c. 650-710 CE). It focuses on the stylistic development and …