North Koreas Kmgangsan is one of Asias most celebrated sacred mountain ranges, comparable in fame to Mount Tai in China and Mount Fuji in Japan. Carving Status at Kmgangsan marks a …
Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the seventeenth century, the late …
At sixty-two meters the Leshan Buddha in southwest China is the worlds tallest premodern statue. Carved out of a riverside cliff in the eighth century, it has evolved from a …
Despite Chinas long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse of antiquity prior to the Song period (9601279) demonstrated little …
Since at least the early sixth century C.E., ink rubbings of stone, metal, clay tiles, and wood inscriptions and pictorial images have been used in China to make precise copies of …
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 …
With over 250 color illustrations, this companion volume to Claudia Brown's Great Qing: Painting in China, 16441911 covers an array of superbly crafted objects of art produced …
The social and economic rise of the chungin class (middle people who ranked between the yangban aristocracy and commoners) during the late Chosn period (17001910) ushered in a …
An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token of exchange between friends or sovereign …
War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and …
