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A history of cultic images in china
Work on the culture of central Hunan has been one of the most exciting sources for rethinking the nature and variety of Chinese local society. Based on two decades of international collaborative research, Alain Arrault focuses on sculpted images of local people and studies them on the basis of co...
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A legacy of elegance
Many Shang dynasty inscribed oracle bones were found at Yinxu, Henan province. Their purpose and function shed significant light on the origin of Chinese culture, disclosing major concerns of the time. Shang oracle-bone script is the earliest known form of systematic Chinese writing, which is a c...
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A vibrant voyage from china
This book showcases the pith paper paintings collected by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library.
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Becoming guanyin
Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion, arguing that women used their own bodies to echo that of Guanyin. She combines empirical research with theoretical insights from both art history and Buddhist studies.
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China pluperfect
This book contains analysis of different domains of contemporary art in China seen through the lens of the epistemological changes described in the first volume.
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Chinese architecture
An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to todayThroughout history, China has maintained one of the world’s richest built civilizations. The nation’s architectural achievements range from its earliest walled cities and the First Em...
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Chinese art and dynastic time
A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art historyThroughout Chinese history, dynastic time—the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties—has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chine...
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Chinese film classics, 1922–1949
Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. Christopher Rea reveals the uniqueness and complexity of Republican China’s cinematic masterworks, from the comedies and melodramas of the silent era to talkies and musicals of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Chinese painting and its audiences
A history of the reception of Chinese painting from the sixteenth century to the presentWhat is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in th...
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Chinese thirdspace
This wide-ranging and theoretically rich book examines how a diverse set of Chinese intellectuals carved out in-between spaces beyond the poles of competing ideologies for greater openness, multiplicity, and pluralism.
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Conversations
Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and career.These wide-ranging conversations flow between topics such as his relationship with China, the m...
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Digital immersive art in china
This book explores the role of virtual reality and augmented reality in China’s rejuvenation, especially in relation to cultural displays, performances and art exhibitions. It examines how audiences, both in China and globally, respond to Digital China through digital immersive art.
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Dwelling in the world
Elizabeth LaCouture considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Dwelling in the World recasts Chinese social and cultural history, offering new lenses on gender and class, colonialism and empi...
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Fixing landscape
Fixing Landscape reconsiders China’s Three Gorges Dam in relation to the aesthetic history of the Gorges region over more than two millennia, thereby offering radically new ways of thinking about cultural and spatial production in contemporary China.
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From shanghai to ohio
This brand-new, lavishly illustrated, publication features over 90 works by Woo Chong Yung, (Wu Zhongxiong), most of which have never been published or publicly displayed.Woo Chong Yung, (Wu Zhongxiong), (1898–1989), also known in the USA as C. Y. Woo, was a highly accomplished painter, calligrap...
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Global lives of objects
A richly illustrated volume which features 33 short essays, each taking a single object as a starting point to unravel complex, interconnected, global histories.In celebration of the centenary in 2023 of the National Museum of Asian Art, this new volume explores a range of artistic, historical, a...
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Grotto art of china
This book traces the origins of Grotto Art form from the Indian subcontinent to its monumental flowering in China.
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Hong kong soft power
In late 2014, the pro-democracy demonstrations that were called the "Umbrella Movement" revealed to the world that Hong Kong was not the money-obsessed society it had often been portrayed as. Hong Kong Soft Power is a description of the complex relationship the artists and activists of this city ...
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Human flow
A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human FlowIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, poli...
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Humanity
Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a p...
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Remembrance in clay and stone
This book explores the memorial and funerary artistic traditions of Southwest China during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE).
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Salon salon
Salon, Salon explores Beijing’s art scene in the decade from the late Cultural Revolution to the beginning of the Reform and Opening-up period. It focuses on the continuous influence of the ideological structure of socialist realism on the practice and discourse of contemporary Chinese art.
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The allure of the mirror
In Han China, few luxury objects were as widely coveted as bronze mirrors. Yanlong Guo explores how and why these objects became so beloved throughout early imperial China, uncovering the varied ways these seemingly trivial objects took on social and cultural significance.
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