What did it mean to be a celebrity in 1930s China? Who were Republican China’s preeminent intellectuals, writers, artists, politicians, diplomats, and businesspeople, and how were they represented in the popular press? During the heady days of Anglophone publishing in 1930s China, Wen Yuan-ning edited for the Critic a series of “Unedited Biographies” (later “Intimate Portraits”...(展开全部)

This book teaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city. Li Shiqiao deftly crafts a new theory of the Chinese city and the dynamics of urbanization by examining how the Chinese city has been shaped by the figuration of the writing system analyzing the continuing importance of the family and its barriers of protection against real and imagined dangers exploring the meanings o...(展开全部)

文以诚（Richard Vinograd），美国斯坦福大学艺术史系主任、教授，著名的中国画研究专家，主攻方向为明代艺术史。博士论文主要论述王蒙的《青卞隐居图》及其绘画风格的演变。著有《二十世纪山水画研究文集》（上海书画出版社）、《中国艺术和文化》。

文以诚（Richard Vinograd），美国斯坦福大学艺术史系主任、教授，著名的中国画研究专家，主攻方向为明代艺术史。博士论文主要论述王蒙的《青卞隐居图》及其绘画风格的演变。著有《二十世纪山水画研究文集》（上海书画出版社）、《中国艺术和文化》。

Despite their compelling presence and often exquisite quality, Chinese ancestor portraits have never been studied as a genre. This richly illustrated book is the first to explore in depth the artistic, historical, and religious significance of these remarkable paintings and to place them with other types of commemorative portraiture.

Newton’s collection of portraits from the worlds of film, fashion, politics and culture can be considered a pantheon of VIP’s. But his work is a lot more besides. From his portraits, one can see that he would have most liked to be a Roman paparazzo – as he once admitted. Anyone who had a portrait made by him knew what the result would be, and by the 1980’s there were absolutely...(展开全部)

A rediscovered masterwork from famed Hungarian novelist Sándor Márai, Portraits of a Marriage tracks the lifelong entanglement of a man and two women haunted by class differences and misdirected longings. Peter and Ilonka are a wealthy couple whose outwardly perfect marriage is undone by secrets. The insecure Ilonka believes she can never be elegant and refined enough for her h...(展开全部)

A masterwork from the famed Hungarian novelist Sándor Márai, Portraits of a Marriage is in fact a portrait of a triangle—three passionate, single-minded lovers fighting over the marriage at the center, each of them bearing the capacity to love irrationally to an irreparable degree. A wealthy couple in bourgeois society, Peter and Ilona appear to enjoy a fine union. But each ...(展开全部)