In the eleventh century, the focus of Chinese painting shifted dramatically. The subject matter of most earlier works of art was drawn from a broadly shared heritage of political, religious, and literary themes. Late in the century, however, a group of scholar-artists began to make paintings that reflected the private experiences of their own lives. Robert Harrist argues here t...(展开全部)

Under the Song Dynasty, China experienced rapid commercial growth and monetization of the economy. In the same period, the austere ethical turn that led to neo-Confucianism was becoming increasingly prevalent in the imperial bureaucracy and literati culture. Tracing the influences of these trends in Chinese intellectual history, All Mine! explores the varied ways in which eleve...(展开全部)

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 constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format were widely reprinted and disseminated in a number of contemporary publicati...(展开全部)

When is a landscape more than a landscape? This is a richly illustrated study of an important genre of Ming-dynasty Chinese painting in which landscapes are actually disguised portraits that celebrate an individual and his achievements, ambitions, and tastes in an open effort to win recognition, support, and social status. In this unique study, Anne de Coursey Clapp presents a ...(展开全部)

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as...(展开全部)

This book examines the work of one of the most famous Chinese artists of all time. In this study, the first full-length work on Shitao in a Western language, Jonathan Hay provides a theoretically sophisticated analysis of this artist by undertaking a social history of his achievement. By focusing on different social, political, biographical, economic, religious and aesthetic is...(展开全部)

The first publication to explore in depth the theme of reclusion in painting and calligraphy within the context of political and social changes in 17th-century China. Reclusion--the act of disengaging from worldly affairs for spiritual and moral cleansing--was a concept deeply associated with ancient Chinese civilization. The theme of reclusion was especially prevalent during t...(展开全部)

奥兰多·费吉斯（Orlando Figes，1959—），英国人，剑桥大学三一学院博士，现为英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院历史学教授。他的一系列解读沙俄及苏联历史的著作——《耳语者》、《娜塔莎之舞》等，取得了非凡的成就，是当今英语世界俄罗斯研究的一流大家。作品曾获沃尔夫森奖、N CR图书奖等，入围萨缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖等，并已被翻译成20多种文字出版。 译者 毛俊杰，1952年生于上海，1978年入复旦分校中文系，1981年后定居纽约，译作有弗朗西斯·福山《政治秩序的起源》、杰克·凯鲁亚克《吉拉德的幻象》等。

奥兰多·费吉斯（Orlando Figes，1959—），英国人，剑桥大学三一学院博士，现为英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院历史学教授。他的一系列解读沙俄及苏联历史的著作——《耳语者》、《娜塔莎之舞》等，取得了非凡的成就，是当今英语世界俄罗斯研究的一流大家。作品曾获沃尔夫森奖、N CR图书奖等，入围萨缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖等，并已被翻译成20多种文字出版。 译者 毛俊杰，1952年生于上海，1978年入复旦分校中文系，1981年后定居纽约，译作有弗朗西斯·福山《政治秩序的起源》、杰克·凯鲁亚克《吉拉德的幻象》等。