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Chinese Art

All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.


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)

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)

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)

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)

Curtis, Emily Byrne. Glass Exchange Between Europe and China, 1550–1800: Diplomatic, Mercantile, and Technological Interactions. Series: Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Ed. 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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Lu, Hanchao. The Birth of a Republic: Francis Stafford's Photographs of China's 1911 Revolution and Beyond. Seattle: University of Washington, 2010. 240 pp.; 162 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780295989402)

Morris, Rosalind C., ed. Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. 328 pp.; 59 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780822342052)

Sung, Hou-mei. Decoded Messages: The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 256 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300141528)

Yang, Xiaoneng, ed. Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in Twentieth-Century China. Exh. cat. Palo Alto, CA and Milan: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University and 5 Continents Editions, 2010. 440 pp.; 284 color ills. Cloth $85.00 (9788874395385)

Yiu, Josh, ed. Writing Modern Chinese Art: Historiographic Explorations. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2010. 144 pp.; 51 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780932216625)

Yue, Rebecca. Chinese Animal Painting Made Easy. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2009. 176 pp.; many color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780823097975)