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Chinese Art

Katherine R. Tsiang
Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan
Exh. cat. Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2010. 257 pp.; 160 color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780935573503)

Exhibition schedule: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, September 30, 2010–January 16, 2011; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, February 26–July 31, 2011; Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, September 11, 2011–January 8, 2012; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, February 18–May 27, 2012

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January 27, 2012
Alexandra B. Bonds
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)
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February 18, 2011
Tracy Miller
The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. 265 pp.; 40 color ills.; 22 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780674021534)
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January 14, 2009
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
Artisans in Early Imperial China
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 400 pp.; 44 color ills.; 67 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780295987132)
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December 17, 2008
Amy McNair
Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture
Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2007. 248 pp.; 86 b/w ills. Cloth $52.00 (9780824829940)
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April 16, 2008
Stephen F. Teiser
Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. 336 pp.; 14 color ills.; 74 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780295986494)
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January 31, 2008
Hoi-chiu Tang
A Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting: The Art of Lin Fengmian
Exh. cat. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2006. 204 pp.; 115 ills. HKD 168.00 (96221520410)

Exhibition schedule: Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, April 4–June 3, 2007

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October 18, 2007
Lin Po-t’ing, ed.
Grand View: A Special Exhibition of Northern Sung Painting and Calligraphy
Exh. cat. Taipei: National Palace Museum, 2007. 495 pp.; 196 color ills. Cloth (1009503912)

Exhibition schedule: National Palace Museum, Taipei, December 25, 2006–March 25, 2007

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August 30, 2007
Macau Museum of Art
Breath of the Universe: Paintings and Calligraphies of Qing Teng and B. Yang from the Palace Museum and the Shanghai Museum
Exh. cat. Macau: Macau Museum of Art, 2005. 422 pp.; 300 color ills. MOP 750.00 (9993754943)

Exhibition schedule: Macau Museum of Art, Macau, August 9–November 19, 2006

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January 11, 2007
Diana Yeongchau Chou
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)
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November 4, 2006
Jeannette Shambaugh Elliott 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)
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September 11, 2006
Dorothy Wong
Chinese Steles: Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form
Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2003. 244 pp.; 125 b/w ills. Cloth $52.00 (9780824827830)
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June 19, 2006
Wu Hung
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)
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March 13, 2006
Craig Clunas
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)
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February 3, 2006
Kees Zandvliet
The Dutch Encounter with Asia, 1600–1950
Exh. cat. Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders Uitgevers, 2004. 464 pp.; 245 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. €29.95 (9040087172)
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 10, 2002–February 9, 2003
June 29, 2005
Nigel Allan, ed.
Pearls of the Orient: Asian Treasures from the Wellcome Library
Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2003. 215 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (0906026601)
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September 10, 2004
Ankeney Weitz
Zhou Mi’s Record of Clouds and Mist Passing before One’s Eyes: An Annotated Translation
Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2002. 398 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $214.00 (9004126058)
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July 28, 2004
Gordon S. Barrass
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)
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The British Museum, London, January 31–May 19, 2002
June 28, 2004
Sarah E. Fraser
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)
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May 19, 2004
Patricia Berger
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)
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December 11, 2003
Maxwell K. Hearn 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)
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October 22, 2002
Wen C. Fong
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)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 30-August 19, 2001.
September 6, 2002
Ginger Cheng-Chi Hsü
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)
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July 29, 2002
Jan Stuart and Evelyn S. Rawski
Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits
Palo Alto, Calif.: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in association with Stanford University Press, 2000. 216 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (0804742634)
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC, June 17–September 9, 2001
July 18, 2002
Stephen Little
Taoism and the Arts of China
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 352 pp.; 190 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (0520227859)
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Art Institute of Chicago, November 4, 2000-January 7, 2001; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, February 21-May 13, 2001.
July 9, 2002
Hui-Shu Lee
Exquisite Moments: West Lake and Southern Song Art
New York: China Institute, 2000. 160 pp.; app. 40 color ills. Paper (0965427056)
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China Institute Gallery, New York, September 13-December 9, 2001
April 18, 2002
Annette L. Juliano 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)
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Asia Society Museum, New York, November 13, 2001-January 6, 2002; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL, February 9-April 21, 2002; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, June 15-September 10, 2002.
April 3, 2002
Robert L. Thorp and Richard Ellis Vinograd
Chinese Art and Culture
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. 440 pp.; 128 color ills.; 230 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (0810941457)
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April 2, 2002
Alfreda Murck
Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 406 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0674002431)
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November 5, 2001
Wu Hung
Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century
University of Chicago Press, 1998. (0935573275)

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, February 18-April 18, 1999; University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR, July 17-September 12, 1999; Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, October 13-December 9, 1999

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January 10, 2001
Cary Y. Liu and Dora C.Y. Ching, eds.
Arts of the Sung and Yuan: Ritual, Ethnicity and Style in Painting
Princeton University Art Museum, 1998. many b/w ills. Paper (0943012309)
August 23, 2000
Stephen Little
Spirit Stones of China: The Ian and Susan Wilson Collection of Chinese Stones, Paintings, and Related Scholars' Objects
Berkeley: University of California Press in association with Art Institute of Chicago, 1998. 112 pp.; 82 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0520220455)
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August 23, 2000
Philip K. Hu
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)
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August 23, 2000
Xiaoneng Yang
The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from the People’s Republic of China
Yale University Press, 1998. 584 pp.; 372 color ills.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0300081324)
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National Gallery of Art, September 19, 1999-January 2, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 13-May 7, 2000; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, June 17-September 11, 2000.
July 13, 2000
Lothar Ledderose
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)
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June 6, 2000
Amy McNair
The Upright Brush: Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics
Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 1997. 142 pp.; 47 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (0824820029)
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September 24, 1999
John T. Young
Contemporary Public Art in China: A Photographic Tour
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. 136 pp.; 85 color ills. Paper $24.95 (0295977086)
September 8, 1999
Robert E. Hegel
Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China
Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. 512 pp.; 67 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0804730024)
Craig Clunas
Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China
Princeton University Press, 1996. 221 pp.; 16 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $39.50 (1861890087)
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March 15, 1999