the funerary shrine of the Confucian scholar Wu Liang, created in AD 151, is the most important surviving pre-Buddhist monument in China. The importance of the shrine lies in the stone reliefs on its walls, in the remarkably comprehensive iconography of its nearly 100 scenes.

Book Description Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilized the study of early Chinese poet...(展开全部)

巫鸿1963年入中央美术学院美术史系学习。1972-1978年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组。1978年重返中央美术学院美术史系攻读硕士学位。1980-1987年就读于哈佛大学，获美术史与人类学双重博士学位。随即在哈佛大学美术史系任教，于1994年获终身教授职位。受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术的教学、研究项目，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席。2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任。同年兼任该校斯马特美术馆顾问策展人。

巫鸿1963年入中央美术学院美术史系学习。1972-1978年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组。1978年重返中央美术学院美术史系攻读硕士学位。1980-1987年就读于哈佛大学，获美术史与人类学双重博士学位。随即在哈佛大学美术史系任教，于1994年获终身教授职位。受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术的教学、研究项目，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席。2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任。同年兼任该校斯马特美术馆顾问策展人。

In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs in southern China, Lai shows that new attitudes toward the dead, resulting from the trauma of viole...(展开全部)

A history both musically and culturally, of the Chinese lute

The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant and challenging introduction to these concerns, as characterized in...(展开全部)

This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of maps in China, centering on those found in three tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and constitute the entire known corpus of early Chinese maps (ditu). More than a millennium separates them from the next available map in the early twelfth century CE. Unlike extant studies that draw heav...(展开全部)

巫鸿，于1987年获哈佛大学美术史与人类学双重学位。随即在该校美术史系任教，于1994年获终身教授职位。同年，受芝加哥大学聘请主持该校亚洲艺术的教学、研究项目，并执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席，并任该校东亚中心主任，及斯马特美术馆顾问策展人。巫鸿的研究和策展领域包括古代和当代两方面。在当代美术中，他在出国后于80年代初、中叶在哈佛大学为当时刚刚进入国际艺坛的十几个中国艺术家举办了个展和群展，展览者包括陈丹青、张宏图、罗中立、李华生、裘德树、翁如兰、木心等。近十年来他更将当代艺术作为主攻方向，致立提高国外对中国现代艺术的理解和研究水平，加强国内外艺术家、评论家和策展人之间的联系。于1998年在美国策划了大型巡回展览“瞬间：90年代末的中国实验艺术”，并出版同名著作，试图把对中国当代美术的介绍和研究从“潮流”转向“个人”。2000年他策划了具有实验性的“关...(展开全部)