Chinese painting might be called "philosophy in action," for it is one of the highest expressions of Chinese spirituality. Both a medium for contemplation leading to self-transcendence and a microcosm embodying universal principles and primal forces, it is a means for making manifest the Chinese worldview. At the heart of this worldview is the notion of emptiness, the dynamic p...(展开全部)

With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to centre stage in the global struggle for food security. "In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is the new oil.", Lester R. Brown writes. Here,...(展开全部)

With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security. In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is the new oil, Lester R. Brown writes. What wi...(展开全部)

作者 [美]乔治·罗丽（George Rowley, 1893—1962），普林斯顿大学艺术与考古系教授，兼任该校艺术博物馆中国展区策展人。作为“普林斯顿学派”的奠基者，罗丽教授也是美国远东艺术史学科建立发展的重要影响者之一。 译者 马梦莹，北京大学艺术学院在读博士生，主要研究方向为中国宗教美术史、画学文献。

高居翰（1926—2014） 加州大学伯克利分校艺术史和研究生院教授，1997年获该校终身成就奖；亦曾长期担任华盛顿弗瑞尔美术馆中国书画部顾问。2010年，史密森尼学会授予其查尔斯·朗·弗瑞尔奖章（Charles Lang Freer Medal），表彰他对亚洲和近东艺术史的杰出贡献。高居翰教授的著作多由在各大学授课时的讲稿修订，或充分利用博物馆资源编纂而成，皆是通过风格分析研究中国绘画史的经典书籍，享有世界范围的学术声誉。 李 渝（1944— ） 台湾大学外文系毕业，加州大学伯克利分校硕士、博士，师从高居翰。在中国美术方面著有《清末的市民画家——任伯年》、《中国现代绘画中的民族主义与先进风格》、《唯美与现实——文革以后中国绘画》等文。也从事小说创作、文学及影剧评论。

What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them d...(展开全部)

What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them d...(展开全部)

Treasures of Asia 系列之一，图片印制朴素精美。 一部当成小说来写的中国绘画史。

喜龙仁（Osvald Siren, 1879—1966），瑞典美术史家，20世纪欧美中国艺术史研究的引路人，首届弗利尔奖章获得者，瑞典斯德哥尔摩大学艺术史教授。喜龙仁起初专攻意大利文艺复兴艺术，后转向中国艺术研究，其研究兴趣无所不包，涉及中国建筑、雕塑、园林、绘画、城市规划等多个领域。他还是欧美多家重要博物馆和多位重要藏家的中国艺术收藏顾问。喜龙仁一生著述极丰，其巅峰之作便是出版于20世纪50年代的《中国绘画：大师和原理》。

Chinese ink painters of the Republican period (1911–1949) creatively engaged with a range of art forms in addition to ink, such as oil painting, drawing, photography, and woodblock prints. They transformed their medium of choice in innovative ways, reinterpreting both its history and its theoretical foundations. Juliane Noth offers a new understanding of these compelling experi...(展开全部)