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November 3, 2006
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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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2006.117

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Prior to this study and annotated translation by Diana Chou, an Anglophone’s introduction to the person and work of Tang Hou would likely have been Susan Bush and Hsio-yen Shih’s Early Chinese Texts on Painting (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985). In that anthology, portions of Tang’s writings were excerpted and arranged thematically under headings such as “On Artists’ Styles” or “On Mounting and Collecting.” One of the significant contributions of Chou’s book is a...