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Chinese Art

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

Agnew, Neville, ed. Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road: Proceedings of an International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites, Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, People's Republic of China, June 28–July 3, 2004. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010. 210 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Paper $89.00 (9781606060131)

Allan, Nigel, ed. Pearls of the Orient: Asian Treasures from the Wellcome Library. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2003. 215 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (0906026601)

Bagley, Robert, ed. Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization. Princeton University Press, 2000. 360 pp.; 248 color ills.; 250 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0691088519)

Bagley, Robert. Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes: Style and Classification in the History of Art. Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asia Series, 2008. 200 pp.; 92 ills. Paper $55.00 (9781933947419)

Barbieri-Low, Anthony J. Artisans in Early Imperial China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 400 pp.; 44 color ills.; 67 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780295987132)

Barker, David. Traditional Techniques in Contemporary Chinese Printmaking. University Of Hawai'i Press, 2004. 128 pp.; 131 color ills.; 90 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (0824829913)

Barrass, Gordon S. The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 288 pp.; 180 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0520234510)

Berger, Patricia. Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2002. 266 pp.; 66 b/w ills.; 66 ills. Cloth $42.00 (0824825632)

Bogel, Cynthia J. With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icons and Early Mikkyo Vision. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. 496 pp.; 33 color ills.; 79 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780295989204)

Bonanni, Filippo. Techniques of Chinese Lacquer: The Classic Eighteenth-Century Treatise on Asian Varnish. Trans. Flavia Perugini. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. 80 pp.; 4 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (9780892369539)

Bonds, Alexandra B. Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2008. 376 pp.; 254 color ills.; 23 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780824829568)

Bosco, Joseph, and Puay-peng Ho. Temples of the Empress of Heaven. Oxford University Press, 1998. 88 pp.; some color ills.; some b/w ills. Cloth $12.95 (0195903552)

Brodsky, Joyce. Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan. Exh. cat. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2008. 248 pp.; 45 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780295987750)

Brown, Rebecca M., and Deborah S. Hutton, eds. Asian Art. Blackwell, 2005. 520 pp.; 25 b/w ills. Paper (1405122412)

Brown, Shana J. Pastimes: From Art and Antiquarianism to Modern Chinese Historiography. Honolulu, HI: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2011. 230 pp.; 5 b/w ills. Cloth $48.00 (9780824834982)

Brown, Claudia. Weaving China’s Past: The Amy S. Clague Collection of Chinese Textiles. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, 1999. 160 pp.; many color ills. Cloth $29.95 (0910407398)

Burkus-Chasson, Anne. Through a Forest of Chancellors: Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. 218 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780674032804)

Cahill, James. Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 280 pp.; 128 color ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780520258570)

Chadwick, Whitney, ed. Bent: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Scandinavian Art. Exh. cat. San Francisco State University Gallery, 2005. 64 pp.; 66 color ills. (0295986131)

Chang, Kwang-chih, and Pingfang Xu. The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective. Ed. Sarah Allan. The Culture and Civilization of China. Bejing and New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with New World Press, 2005. 384 pp.; 308  color ills.; 94 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300093827)

Chiu, Melissa, and Zheng Shengtian, eds. Art and China's Revolution. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society and Yale University Press, 2008. 280 pp.; 150 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $65.00 (9780300140644)

Chiu, Melissa, Karen Higa, and Susette S. Min, eds. One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now. Exh. cat. Asia Society, 2005. 127 pp.; 146 color ills.; 7 b/w ills. $29.95 (0300120591)

Chou, Diana Yeongchau. A Study and Translation from the Chinese of Tang Hou’s Huajian (Examination of Painting): Cultivating Taste in Yuan China, 1279–1368. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 276 pp.; 12 b/w ills. Cloth $109.95 (0773460950)

Chung, Anita, ed. Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904–1965). Exh. cat. New Haven and Cleveland, OH: Yale University Press and Cleveland Art Museum, 2012. 256 pp.; 130 color ills.; 18 b/w ills. Paper $50.00 (9780300169744)

Clark, John. Asian Modernities: Chinese and Thai Art Compared, 1980 to 1999. Sydney: Power Publications, 2011. 288 pp.; 20 color ills.; 146 b/w ills.; 166 ills. Paper $59.95 (9780909952389)

Clark, John, ed. Chinese Art at the End of the Millennium: Chinese-art.com 1998-1999. Hong Kong: New Art Media Limited, 1999. 263 pp.; 167 ills. Paper $28.00 (9628592718)

Clarke, David. Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. 116 pp.; 116 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9789888083060)

Clarke, David. Modern Chinese Art. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1999. 70 pp.; few color ills.; some b/w ills. Cloth (0195906063)

Clarke, David. Water and Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 29 color ills.; 90 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9781861896629)

Clunas, Craig. Art in China: Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 272 pp.; 79 color ills.; 130 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780199217342)

Clunas, Craig. Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2003. 232 pp.; 63 color ills.; 35 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (0824827724)

Clunas, Craig. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China. Princeton University Press, 1996. 221 pp.; 16 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $39.50 (1861890087)

Corrigan, Gina. Miao Textiles from China. University of Washington Press in association with British Museum Press, 2000. 88 pp.; 100+ color ills. Paper $19.95 (0295981377)

Curtis, Emily Byrne. Glass Exchange Between Europe and China, 1550–1800: Diplomatic, Mercantile, and Technological Interactions. Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Edited by Mihoko Suzuki, Ann Rosalind Jones, and Jyotsna Singh. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 174 pp.; 4 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth £50.00 (9780754663164)

Dalby, Liza Crihfield. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. University of Washington Press, 2000. 396 pp.; 71 color ills.; 279 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0295981555)

Delson, Susan, ed. Ai WeiWei: Circle of Animals. Exh. cat. New York: Prestel and AW Asia, 2011. 220 pp.; 165 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9783791346366)

Di'an, Fan, and Zhang Ga, eds. Synthetic Times: Media Art China. Beijing: National Art Museum of China, 2010. 358 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $44.95 (9780262512268)

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, and Maggie Bickford, eds. Emperor Huizong and Late Nothern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics. Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. 625 pp.; 16 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (0674021274)

Eleftheriotis, Dimitris, and Gary Needham, eds. Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. University Of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 488 pp. Paper $28.00 (0824830857)

Elkins, James. Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History. Aberdeen: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. 208 pp. Cloth $45.00 (9789622090002)

Elliott, Jeannette Shambaugh, and David Shambaugh. The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. 192 pp.; 45 b/w ills. Cloth (0295985224)

Elms, Anthony, and Steve Reinke, eds. Blast Counterblast. Toronto, Ontario and Chicago: Mercer Union: A Centre for Contemporary Art and WhiteWalls, 2012. 192 pp.; 7 ills. Paper $24.00 (9781926627175)

Emerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, and Mimi Gardner Gates. Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe. Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, 1999. 318 pp.; many color ills. Cloth (0932216528)

Fazzioli, Edoardo, and Rebecca Hon Ko. Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram. Abbeville Press, 1986. 251 pp.; 600 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0896597741)

Finlay, Robert. The Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 440 pp.; 24 color ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780520244689)

Fong, Wen C. Between Two Cultures: Late-Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yale University Press, 2000. 300 pp.; 114 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300088507)

Fong, Wen C., and Ouyang Zhongshi. Chinese Calligraphy. Ed. Wang Youfen; trans. Wang Youfen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 520 pp.; 550 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300121070)

Fong, Wen C., Chin-Sung Chang, and Maxwell K. Hearn. Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632–1717). Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. 248 pp.; 265 ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300141443)

Fraser, Sarah E. Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618–960. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. 400 pp.; 156 ills. Cloth $70.00 (0804745331)

Gao, Minglu. Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. 408 pp.; 150 color ills.; 23 b/w ills.; 173 ills. Paper $39.95 (9780262014946)

Garrett, Valery M. Chinese Dragon Robes. Oxford University Press, 1998. 80 pp.; some color ills.; soem b/w ills. Cloth $12.95 (0195904990)

Handler, Sarah. Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 417 pp.; 118 color ills.; 204 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0520214846)

Harrist, Jr., Robert E. The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 424 pp.; 20 color ills.; 133 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780295987286)

Hay, Jonathan. Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China. London: Reaktion Books, 2010. 440 pp.; 223 color ills.; 6 b/w ills. Cloth £35.00 (9780824833619)

Hay, Jonathan. Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China. Cambridge University Press, 2000. 412 pp.; 22 color ills.; 220 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (0521393426)

He, Weimin, and Shelagh Vainker. Chinese Prints 1950–2006 In the Ashmolean Museum. Exh. cat. Oxford, U.K.: Ashmolean Museum, 2007. 160 pp. ₤ 14.95 (9781854442284)

Hearn, Maxwell, and Wen Fong. Along the Riverbank: Chinese Paintings from the C.C. Wang Family Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1998. 184 pp.; 55 color ills.; 105 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0810965410)

Hearn, Maxwell K., and Judith G. Smith, eds. Chinese Art: Modern Expressions. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. 311 pp.; 183 b/w ills. $19.95 (0300091982)

Hearn, Maxwell K. How to Read Chinese Paintings. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2008. 184 pp.; 175 color ills. Paper $25.00 (9780300141870)

Hegel, Robert E. Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. 512 pp.; 67 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0804730024)

Hohenegger, Beatrice, ed. Steeped in History: The Art of Tea. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2010. 240 pp.; 372 color ills. Paper $40.00 (9780977834419)

Hostetler, Laura. Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China. University of Chicago Press, 2000. 278 pp.; 20 color ills.; 23 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0226354202)

Howard, Angela Falco, Li Song, and Wu Hung. Chinese Sculpture. Beijing: Yale University Press in association with Foreign Languages Press, 2005. 536 pp.; 468 color ills. Cloth (0300100655)

Hsü, Ginger Cheng-Chi. A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 330 pp.; 1 color ills.; 45 b/w ills. Cloth $49.50 (0804732523)

Hu, Philip K. Visible Traces: Rare Books and Special Collections from the National Library of China. Queens Borough Public Library in association with Morning Glory Publishers and Art Media Resources, 1999. 370 pp.; 180 color ills. Paper $65.00 (0964533715)

Hung, Wu, ed. Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2010. 464 pp.; 50 color ills.; 79 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780822349433)

Hung, Wu, ed. Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art. Chicago: David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2009. 160 pp.; 100 color ills. Paper $0.00 (9780935573466)

Hung, Wu. Exhibiting Experimental Art in China. University of Chicago Press in association with David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2000. 224 pp.; 111 color ills.; 29 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (093557333x)

Hung, Wu. Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space. Chicago: University of Chicago Press in association with Reaktion Books, 2004. 240 pp.; 60 color ills.; 133 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (0226360784)

Hung, Wu. The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2010. 272 pp.; 83 color ills.; 147 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780824834265)

Hung, Wu. Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century. University of Chicago Press, 1998. (0935573275)

Huot, Claire. China's New Cultural Scene: A Handbook of Changes. Duke University Press, 1999. 258 pp.; 22 b/w ills. Paper $18.95 (0822324458)

Iimura, Takahiko. Observer/Observed and Other Works of Video Semiology. Banff, Canada: Takahiko Iimura in association with The Banff Centre, 1998. CD-ROM

Jackson, David P. Patron and Painter: Situ Panchen and the Revival of the Encampment Style. Exh. cat. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2009. 304 pp.; 190 color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780977213139)

Johns, Catherine. Horses: History, Myth, Art. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. 192 pp.; 175 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780674023239)

Johnston, John, Chan Lai Pik, and Lin Shwu Shin. 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade: Featuring Selections from the National Museum of History, Taiwan, and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Exh. cat. San Antonio, TX: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2011. 130 pp.; 103 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9780615471808)

Juliano, Annette L., and Judith A. Lerner, eds. Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, Fourth–Seventh Century. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. 320 pp.; 260 color ills.; 160 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0810934787)

Jullien, François. The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 288 pp.; 7 color ills. Cloth $48.00 (9780226415397)

Jullien, François. The Impossible Nude: Chinese Art and Western Aesthetics. Trans. Maev de la Guardia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 152 pp.; 13 color ills.; 34 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780226415321)

Katz, Paul R. Images of the Immortal: The Cult of Lü Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy. University Of Hawai'i Press, 1998. 304 pp.; 17 b/w ills. Cloth $54.00 (082482170X)

Kelley, Jeff. Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection. Exh. cat. Berkeley and San Francisco: University of California Press and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2009. 85 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780520257795)

Kent, Richard K., and Christopher Zhu, eds. Embracing the Uncarved Wood: Sculptural Reliefs from Shandong, China. Exh. cat. Lancaster, Pa.: Phillips Museum of Art, 2009. 90 pp.; 158 color ills. Paper $30.00 (9780910626033)

Kikuchi, Yuko. Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2007. 286 pp.; 22 color ills.; 84 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780824830502)

King, Richard, ed. Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966–76. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. 318 pp.; 62 ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780774815420)

Krahl, Regina. China: The Three Emperors 1662–1795. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 496 pp.; 500 color ills. Cloth $95.00 (9781903973691)

Ledderose, Lothar. Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. Princeton University Press, 1999. 265 pp.; 14 color ills.; 261 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0691006695)

Ledderose, Lothar. Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. Princeton University Press, 2000. 304 pp.; 16 color ills.; 275 b/w ills.; 50 ills. Paper $24.95 (0691009570)

Lee, Hui-Shu. Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. Many color ills. Cloth $65.00 (978-0295989631)

Lee, Hui-Shu. Exquisite Moments: West Lake and Southern Song Art. New York: China Institute, 2000. 160 pp.; app. 40 color ills. Paper (0965427056)

Lee, Anthony W. Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientialism in San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 361 pp.; 8 color ills.; 159 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0520225929)

Lee, Sonya S. Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. 372 pp.; 145 ills. Cloth $55.00 (9789622091252)

Lee, De-Nin D. The Night Banquet: A Chinese Scroll Through Time. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. 172 pp.; 16 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780295990729)

Lee Hammers, Roslyn. Pictures of Tilling and Weaving: Art, Labor and Technology in Song and Yuan China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. 304 pp.; 120 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9789888028634)

Leidy, Denise Patry, and Donna Strahan. Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. 256 pp.; 227 color ills.; 168 b/w ills.; 395 ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300155211)

Li, T. June, ed. Another World Lies Beyond: Creating Liu Fang Yuan, the Huntington's Chinese Gardens. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 2009. 130 pp.; 120 color ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780873281751)

Li, T. June, ed. Treasures Through Six Generations: Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Weng Collection. Exh. cat. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library Press, 2009. 156 pp.; 80 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780873282390)

Li, Ziaoping. Wu Li (1632-1718): His Life, His Paintings. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999. 240 pp.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $36.00 (076181843x)

Lim, Song Hwee. Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas. University Of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 272 pp. Cloth $54.00 (0824829093)

Lin, Xiaoping. Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema. Critical Interventions. Ed. Sheldon H. Lu. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2010. 328 pp.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $47.00 (9780824833367)

Little, Stephen. New Songs on Ancient Tunes: 19th–20th-Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Richard Fabian Collection. Ed. J. May Lee Barrett. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2008. 536 pp.; 425 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780937426791)