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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Zhou Mi’s Record of Clouds and Mist Passing Before One’s Eyes: An Annotated Translation offers a stimulating and well-documented discussion of art collecting in late-thirteenth-century China. Revised from her dissertation, completed in 1994 at the University of Kansas, Ankeney Weitz’s book is centered on her copiously footnoted translation of Yunyan guoyan lu, an important catalogue by Zhou Mi (1232–1298).1 The title of Zhou’s work, translated as Record of Clouds and Mist Passing Before One’s Eyes,...