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Han Suyin: 82 Contemporary Chinese Painters. Cloth 
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  • 82 Contemporary Chinese Painters. Cloth, with dustjacket, 26x37cm
  • foreword by Han Suyin
  • 82 photo's and short biographies of each painter, 82 full-size colour illustrations, text in english language, first edition Beijing 1986

8172-998-B Shi Tao. Album. 7 Flowerpaintings. 14-page brocade-cover album 
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  • Album: Shi Tao. 7 Flowerpaintings. 14-page brocade-cover album
  • Shi Tao 1630? - 1714? Qing Dynasty
  • 7 pages with flowerpaintings (all woodblock reproductions). 14-page brocade-cover album, printed on rice paper, harmonica-binding. The earliest known example of a print made by this process is the frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra, a picture still extant, printed by a man called Wang Jie, in the 9th year of the reign of Xiantong of the Tang Dynasty (868 AD). In the centuries that followed, with the fast development of science, art and literature, many books were illustrated with pictures printed from wooden blocks.

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Pal: American Collectors of Asian Art. Cloth 
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  • American Collectors of Asian Art. Cloth. 25x33 cm
  • edited by Pratapaditya Pal
  • 224 pages, with numerous colour and black-white illustrations. 1986

7119001485 Wang Shixiang: Ancient Chinese Lacquerware. Cloth 
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  • Ancient Chinese Lacquerware. Cloth ca.27x32 cm
  • Wang Shixiang
  • 225 pages, including 106 colour and 48 black-white plates, illustration captions with description of all these subjects, a brief Chinese chronology, selected bibliography and commentaries, map, table of plates, many text figures. 1987

0835113574 Wang Shucun: Ancient Chinese Woodblock New Year Prints. Cloth 
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  • Ancient Chinese Woodblock New Year Prints. Cloth, ca. 26x32 cm
  • Introduction by Wang Shucun
  • 184 pages, map, text figures, including 140 colour plates and a description of all the plates, first edition, Beijing 1985

Taiwan Chu Wen-kuang: Anthology of Paintings of Animals. Paperback 
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  • Anthology of Paintings of Animals. Paperback. Ca. 21x27.5 cm
  • Chu Wen-kuang
  • 78 pages, 34 colour and 67 black-white illustrations, with step-by-step instructions
  • 1988

9780300053340op Sickman: The Art and Architecture of China. Paperback 
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  • Art and Architecture of China. Third edition. Paperback
  • by Sickman, Laurence C. S. / Soper, Alexander Coburn
  • 527 pages, with numerous illustrations. 1992. Surveys the development of Chinese painting, sculpture, and architecture over a four-thousand-year period and examines the impact of religious and philosophical ideas

9780199217342 /1/ Craig Clunas: Art in China. Paperback 
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  • Art in China. Presents an overview of art in China from the Neolithic period to the 1990s. Paperback
  • By Craig Clunas. 288 pages, 130 halftones, 79 colour illustrations. 1997. 2009. This updated edition contains expanded coverage of modern and contemporary art, from the fall of the empire in 1911 to the growing international interest in the art of an increasingly confident and booming China.

Hu Yunhua: Art of Chinese Miniature Landscape. Hardback 
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  • Art of Chinese Miniature Landscape. Hardback. ca. 23x26cm
  • by Hu Yunhua
  • 162 pages, 110 plates with colour photographs, in text 65 black-white and colour figures and photos
  • first edition, 1989

9780300090758 / Monroe: The Art of Mu Xin: The Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes. Hardcover 
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  • Art of Mu Xin: The Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes. Hardcover
  • by Alexandra Monroe (Int)
  • 192 pages, 54 colour plates and 56 bw illustrations. 2002. Mu Xin (b. 1927) is one of the leading expatriate artist-intellectuals of our time. This beautifull catalogue focuses on a group of 33 landscape paintings that Mu Xin painted in 1978–79, in the aftermath of the Great Cultural Revolution.

9622150780 Chu: The Art of Van Lau. Hong Kong Arts Festival: 1987. Paperback 
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  • Art of Van Lau. Hong Kong Arts Festival: 1987. Paperback
  • Introduction by Christina K.L. Chu
  • 96 pages, 46 colour plates including some black-white photo's, with a list of exhibits, artist's biography, text in Chinese and English. 1987

9622150853 Xu Beihong, Ting: The Art of Xu Beihong. Exhebition Catalogue 1988 Hong Kong Museum of Art. Hardcover 
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  • Art of Xu Beihong. Exhebition Catalogue 1988 Hong Kong Museum of Art. Hardcover. ca. 26x30 cm
  • edited by Joseph S.P. Ting and Szeto Yuen-kit
  • 154 pages, bibliographical notes, 74 colour plates, 17 figures. Text in Chinese and English. Hong Kong, 1988. A comprehensive catalogue of the life and art of Xu Beihong, one of China's most prominent artists

9784770030719 / Albertini: Avatars and Antiheroes: A Guide to Contemporary Chinese Artists. Hardcover 
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  • Avatars and Antiheroes: A Guide to Contemporary Chinese Artists. Hardcover
  • Claudia Albertini
  • 176 pages. 2008. Showcases forty of the latest and most relevant contemporary artists from China. Featuring stunning full-color plates of the work of leading painters, photographers, sculptors, performance artists, video artists, and even a fireworks artist, this book gives a fascinating insight into modern Chinese society and its vibrant contemporary art scene.

0878464344 Berliner: Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Cloth 
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  • Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Cloth. 22x31cm
  • by Nancy Berliner, with contributions by Craig Clunas, Curtis Evarts, Sarah Handler, and Wang Zhengshu / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Cor)
  • 158 pages, with 64 colour and 68 black-white illustrations, index. 1996

9780714114910 Carswell: Blue & White: Chinese Porcelain around the World. Hardback 
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  • Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain around the World. Hardback
  • by John Carswell
  • 208 pages, 240 colour and 50 bw illustrations. 2000. This book traces the history and evolution of blue and white in China, first during the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), when the Mongols ruled all of Asia. In the fifteenth century the Chinese became enamoured of their own product, while at the same time the Ming potters were susceptible to ideas from the Islamic world, and commercial and aesthetic pressures during the colonial period of European expansion.

9781859640104 Solonin, Naumkin: The Bretschneider Albums: 19th Century Paintings of Life in China. Cloth 
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  • Bretschneider Albums: 19th Century Paintings of Life in China. Cloth. ca. 25x34 cm
  • by K.Y. Solonin. Vitaly Naumkin, general editor
  • 171 pages, 130 full-colour plates, first edition. 1995

9780804732529 / Hsü: A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow. Hardcover 
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  • Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow. Hardcover
  • by Ginger Cheng-chi Hsü
  • xiii,  314 pages. Ca. 50 illustrations. 2001. She shows how aesthetic choice is not free from political, economic, and social conditions. She discusses the merchant patrons associated with the Yangchow school of painting and reconstructs the lives of four painters who exemplify the diversity of the school's traditions: Fang Shih-Shu, Huang Shen, Cheng Shieh, and Chin Nung

7102002300 Catalogue Traditional Chinese Paintings. Cloth 
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  • Catalogue Traditional Chinese Paintings. Cloth. Ca. 27x37cm
  • 45 plates traditional chinese paintings. 28 plates graphic paintings. 16 plates oil paintings. 8 plates watercolour gouache paintings. 10 plates sculptures. 1988. Many plates are, full-size, in colour. With biographies. Text generally in chinese Language. Titles of the Paintings and the Lists of them in both English and French Language

9781903973691 Rawski, Rawson: China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795. Hardcover 
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  • China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795. Hardcover, 30x25cm
  • Edited by Evelyn S. Rawski and Jessica Rawson
  • 496 pages, with 450 colour illustrations. 2006

9780131833647 /1/ Thorp: Chinese Art and Culture. Hardcover 
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  • Chinese Art and Culture. Hardcover
  • by Robert L. Thorp. 2001

9780500202999 Tregear: Chinese Art. Revised, 1997 edition 
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  • Chinese Art. Revised, 1997 edition
  • by Mary Tregear
  • 216 pages with maps and index, 21 colour and 141 black-white illustrations. This revised edition of Mary Tregears survey of the Chinese visual arts covers bronzes, jades, calligraphy and painting. She also looks at Buddhist sculpture, ceramics, textiles, jewellery, lacquer, garden design and architecture

9780300121070 Wang, a.o.: Chinese Calligraphy. Hardcover 
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  • Chinese Calligraphy. Hardcover.  ca. 23x31cm
  • Translated and edited by Youfen Wang.
  • 520 pages, 75 b/w and 550 color illustrations. 2008. Chinese calligraphy has been treasured for more than three millennia. This lavishly illustrated book brings to English language readers for the first time a full account of calligraphy in China, including its history, theory, and importance in Chinese culture. Representing an unprecedented collaboration among leading Chinese and Western specialists, the book provides a definitive and up-to-date overview of the visual art form most revered in China.

9780486251714 Ecke: Chinese Domestic Furniture in Photographs and Measured Drawings. Paperback 
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  • Chinese Domestic Furniture in Photographs and Measured Drawings. Paperback. Ca. 10x30cm
  • by Gustav Ecke. ix, 161 plates of photographs and drawings, with a list of pieces, list of plates, bibliography, 59 pages with text. Reprint

Chu: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy by Guangdong and Hong Kong Artists from the Tayilou Collection. Hardcover 
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  • Chinese Painting and Calligraphy by Guangdong and Hong Kong Artists from the Tayilou Collection. Hradcover, ca. 21x30 cm
  • Christina Chu, editor
  • 224 pages, 100 plates, many in colour, text in Chinese and English. 1992

Lust: Chinese Popular Prints. Cloth 
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  • Chinese Popular Prints. Cloth
  • John Lust
  • xiv, 352 pages, 28 illustrations. 1996. The book is a first attempt to present the Chinese popular blockprint illustration for display, its culture, history and workshops. It shows how it blossomed out in the urban and rural scenes of recent centuries, finally to succumb to nationalism and revolution

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Schlieder: Chinesische Bambuspapierherstellung: Ein Bilderalbum aus dem 18. Jahrhundert: Chinesisch gebunden.  
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  • Chinesische Bambuspapierherstellung: Ein Bilderalbum aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. 30x37cm, Chinesische Bindung
  • Kommentar: Wolfgang Schlieder, Pan Jixing & Sybille Girmond
  • 34 Seiten mit 24 Farbtafeln und Kommentarteil und 80 Seiten mit 3 Farb- und 112 schwarz-weiss Abbildungen, alles in einem Band. 1993. Das Original des faksimilierten Bilderalbums befindet sich unter der Signatur Bb364 im Deutschen Buch- und Schriftmuseum der Deutschen Bücherei Leipzig

Neill: The Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale. Paperback 
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  • Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale. Paperback
  • by Mary Gardner Neill
  • 146 pages, with many illustrations, map, bibliography, chronology. Reduced price, cover slightly damaged by small sticker (see top middle)

Wu: Contemporary Chinese Painters: 1. Paperback 
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  • Contemporary Chinese Painters: 1. Paperback
  • compiled by Victor Wu
  • 88 pages, with 12 painters and their biography, list of painters, and pictures of some of their paintings, first edition 1982, second edition 1986

Ma Tak-wo: Currency of Macau. Paperback 
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  • Currency of Macau. Paperback
  • Ma Tak-wo
  • 84 pages, with many colour illustrations. You will like the beautiful illustrations in this book even if you don't like money

Taiwan CVHT 04: The Drawings of That Land: The Interpretation of Taiwan (1895-1945). 
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  • CVHT 04: The Drawings of That Land: The Interpretation of Taiwan (1895-1945). Hardback, ca. A4
  • 238 pages, with over 130 monochrome and colour illustrations
  • a.o.: Taiwan Vistas. The Taiwan Fine Arts Exhibition. Taiwan through Oil and Canvas. Focus on Taiwan. Watercolors of Taiwan. Graphic Taiwan

Taiwan CVHT 07: Postcard Drawings: The Rare Collection 
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  • CVHT 07: Postcard Drawings: The Rare Collection. Hardback, ca A4
  • 238 pages, with about 125 monochrome or colour illustrations, many of them full-page size
  • with a.o.: Modern Ukiyoe. The Craftmanship of Characters. Ink and Wash Miniatures. The Charm of Seals. WoodenScenic Postcards. Materials, Techniques, Mounting the Picture etc.

Hyland: Deities, Emperors, Ladies and Literati. Figure Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Paperback 
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  • Deities, Emperors, Ladies and Literati. Figure Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Paperback, ca. 21x30 cm
  • by Alice R.M. Hyland
  • 96 pages, with a map, bibliography, 37 black-white and colour plates. 1987

9780892641628 / Ye Xiaoqing: The Dianshizhai Pictorial. Shanghai Urban Life 1884 - 1898. Paperback 
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  • Dianshizhai Pictorial. Shanghai Urban Life 1884 - 1898. Paperback
  • by Ye Xiaoqing
  • 249 pages, bibliography, 137 illustrations (line drawings of Old Shanghai). 2003

Taiwan Lin Hsiu-Fang: Early Ching Painting: The Individualists. Cloth 
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  • Early Ching Painting: The Individualists. Cloth, ca. 28 x 22 cm
  • by Lin Hsiu-Fang
  • 168 pages, 129 colour and 93 black-white illustrations. 1988. Chinese edition with titles in Chinese and English

962238059x Bai Zhi: Flower and Bird Painting. Technique of Chinese Painting. Paperback 
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  • Flower-and-Bird Painting. Technique of Chinese Painting. Paperback
  • by Bai Zhi, translated by Huang Zhenhua
  • 83 pages, with a glossary, and 84 text figures in colour or black-white. 1986

0824811496 Weidner: Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting. Cloth 
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  • Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting. Cloth
  • Marsha Weidner, editor
  • xvi, 315 pages

9780804802123op Scott: The Golden Age of Chinese Art. The Lively T'ang Dynasty. Hardcover.  
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  • Golden Age of Chinese Art. The Lively T'ang Dynasty. Hardcover
  • by Hugh Scott
  • 191 pages, with 24 full color plates, 100 black-white plates. 1982

Li Xueqin: The Great Treasury of Chines Fine Arts: Arts & Crafts 4: Bronzes I. Hardcover 
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  • Great Treasury of Chines Fine Arts: Arts & Crafts 4: Bronzes I. Hardcover
  • by Li  Xueqin
  • 240 plates, with 240 black-and-white figures with a description, and 15 pages with origin and development of Chinese bronzes. 1987, cover slightly damaged, see picture at end of word Chinese, reduced price

7102003463 Liu Yushan: The Great Treasury of Chines Fine Arts: Sculpture 2. Sculpture of the Qin and Han Dynasties. Hardcover 
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  • Great Treasury of Chines Fine Arts: Sculpture 2: Sculpture of the Qin and Han Dynasties. Hardcover
  • Liu Yushan, editor
  • 148 plates, with 148 black-white figures with a description, text pages 1-17 with "Sculpture during the Qin and Western Han Dynasties", by Tang Chi, text pages 18-34 with "Sculpture during the Eastern Han Dynasty", by Liu Xingzhen, text pages 35-44 with "Sculpture during the Qin and Han Dynasties", by Fu Tiangchou. A translation of Zhongguo Meishu Quanji: Diaosu volume 2.

9622150977 Hoi-chiu Tang: Hong Kong Calligraphy. Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Paperback 
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  • Hong Kong Calligraphy. Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Paperback. 21x28cm
  • by Hoi-chiu Tang & Yuen-kit Szeto, editors
  • 174 pages, and 86 plates. Contents: Seal Script. Clerical Script. Regular Script. Running Script and Cursive Script. 1990. Presented by the Urban Council, Hong Kong. Organized by the Hong Kong Museum of Art: 10-4-1990 - 10-6-1990

9780300141870 Hearn: How to Read Chinese Paintings. Paperback 
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  • How to Read Chinese Paintings. Paperback
  • Maxwell K. Hearn
  • 184 pages, 175 color illustrations, 1 map. 2008. This volume closely “reads” thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopedic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to reveal the major characteristics and themes of this rich pictorial tradition.

0892641266 Laing: An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth Century Chinese Artists. Hardcover 
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  • Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth Century Chinese Artists. Hardcover
  • by Ellen Johnston Laing
  • xxi, 530 pages. Revised edition 1998

9780300141443 Hearn: Landscapes Clear and Radiant. The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717). Hardcover 
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  • Landscapes Clear and Radiant. The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717). Hardcover
  • Edited by Maxwell K. Hearn
  • 248 pages. 184 b/w and 81 color illustrations, 5 maps. 2008. This comprehensive study of the painter’s career features essays examining his life and achievement as well as his masterwork, the monumental scroll depicting the Kangxi emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour

Tam: Leung Kui Ting - Paintings, Drawings, Prints. Paperback 
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  • Leung Kui Ting - Paintings, Drawings, Prints. Exhibition March 1978.  Paperback
  • Laurence C.S. Tam, curator
  • 14 pages, illustrations. Hong Kong 1978

Lu Yanzhen: Life of the Emperors and Empresses in the Forbidden City: 1644-1911. Photobook. Paperback 
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  • Life of the Emperors and Empresses in the Forbidden City: 1644-1911. Photobook. Paperback. Ca. 23x31 cm
  • by Lu Yanzhen, Li Wenshan & Wan Yi, editors
  • 121 pages, and 12 pages with the english translation. With numerous, mainly colour, illustrations
  • Text in Chinese with an translation into English
  • 1983

Qian Songyan, Sun Ji: Longing for Home: Paintings of Qian Songyan. Cloth 
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  • Longing for Home: Paintings of Qian Songyan. Cloth, in slipcase, ca. 26x36 cm
  • edited by Sun Ji
  • 16 pages text, 80 full-size colour plates, biography. Beijing 1987

Taiwan Su-Sing Chow: A Manual in Chinese Brush Painting: Flowers of the Four Seasons: Volume 1: Spring. Paperback 
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  • Manual in Chinese Brush Painting: Flowers of the Four Seasons: Volume 1: Spring. Paperback, ca. 21x27.5 cm
  • by Su-Sing Chow
  • 64 pages, with many colour illustrations
  • 1986

Taiwan Su-Sing Chow: A Manual in Chinese Brush Painting: Flowers of the Four Seasons: Volume 2: Summer. Paperback 
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  • Manual in Chinese Brush Painting: Flowers of the Four Seasons: Volume 2: Summer. Paperback, ca. 21x27.5 cm
  • by Su-Sing Chow
  • 64 pages, with many colour illustrations
  • 1986

Taiwan Su-Sing Chow: A Manual in Chinese Brush Painting: Flowers of the Four Seasons: Volume 3: Autumn. Paperback 
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  • Manual in Chinese Brush Painting: Flowers of the Four Seasons: Volume 3: Autumn. Paperback, ca. 21x27.5 cm
  • by Su-Sing Chow
  • 64 pages, with many colour illustrations
  • 1986

Taiwan Su-Sing Chow: A Manual in Chinese Brush Painting: Flowers of the Four Seasons: Volume 4: Winter. Paperback 
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  • Manual in Chinese Brush Painting: Flowers of the Four Seasons: Volume 4: Winter. Paperback, ca. 21x27.5 cm
  • by Su-Sing Chow
  • 64 pages, with many colour illustrations
  • 1986

Taiwan Manual of Chinese Bird Painting no. 2. Paperback 
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  • Manual of Chinese Bird Painting No. 2. Paperback, ca. 21x27.5 cm
  • Fundamentals of Chinese Floral Painting No. 3
  • 80 pages, with many black and white-, and colour illustrations

Taiwan Manual of Chinese Bird Painting no. 3. Paperback 
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  • Manual of Chinese Bird Painting no. 3. Paperback, ca. 21x27.5 cm
  • Fundamentals of Chinese Floral Painting No. 3
  • 80 pages, with many black-white and colour illustrations

Cunningham: Masterworks of Asian Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hardcover 
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  • Masterworks of Asian Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hardcover, ca. 20x28 cm
  • by Michael R. Cunningham
  • 254 pages, with 125 colour illustrations. 1998. These highlights include Chinese paintings and textiles, traditional Japanese ink paintings and medieval stoneware, and examples of Cambodian and early Indian stone sculpture.

9780520252097 Sullivan: The Night Entertainments of Han Xizai. A Scroll by Gu Hongzhong. Hardcover 
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  • Night Entertainments of Han Xizai. A Scroll by Gu Hongzhong. Hardcover
  • Michael Sullivan
  • 96 pages, 22 color illustrations, 1 map, 1 table. 2008. In this beautiful and concisely focused book, eminent art historian Michael Sullivan guides the reader through a single masterwork of Chinese art, The Night Entertainments of Han Xizai. Attributed to the artist Gu Hongzhong, this Five Dynasties handscroll portrays the scandalous private life of Han Xizai, senior minister to three "emperors" of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the mid-tenth century.

Waley: Oriental Art and Culture: A Study of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Art. In 2 Volumes. Cloth 
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  • Oriental Art and Culture: A Study of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Art. Cloth. 22x28.5cm
  • Arthur Waley
  • Volume I: 142 pages with text and five text-illustrations, also some music script. Volume II: 62 Plates in colour and black-white. Indian publication: The photographs are not perfect. Price for the complete set

9780231081801 Cahill: The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China. Hardcover 
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  • Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China. Hardcover. ca. 28 x 21 cm
  • James Cahill
  • xi, 187 pages, bibliography, index, many illustrations. 1994. Cahill blasts conventional notions of the elevated and disinterested scholar-artist in Chinese history. He studies the social and commercial context of art from the 16th century onward and the implications of that context for our understanding of traditional Chinese art.

9780892640980 Oertling: Painting and Calligraphy in the Wu-Tsa-Tsu: Conservative Aesthetics in 17th Century China. Hardcover 
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  • Painting and Calligraphy in the Wu-Tsa-Tsu: Conservative Aesthetics in 17th Century China. Hardcover. 23x16cm
  • by Oertling, Sewall J. / Hsieh, Chao-Che Wu Tsa Tsu
  • viii, 180 pages text in English, 37 pages Chinese text, glossary/index. 1997

9780691016092 /o Harrist: Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China. Hardcover 
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  • Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin. Hardcover. Ca. 19.5x26 cm
  • Robert E. Harrist, Jr.
  • xvii, 164 pages with text, glossary, index, bibliography, notes, 72 plates with black-white illustrations

7119008528 Zhang Daguang: Painting from the Heart. Selected Works of Wu Guanzhong. Cloth 
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  • Painting from the Heart: Selected Works of Wu Guanzhong. Cloth, 27x32cm
  • Zhang Daguang & Zhang Dachuan: editors
  • 111 pages with many full-colour plates (as many of the Chinese and Indian books the dustcover has wrinkled plastic coating)

Catalogue: Painting of Children at Play. Paperback 
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  • Painting of Children at Play. 21x30 cm. Paperback
  • Catalogue of the exhibition of paintings of children playing. Text both in chinese and english language. 98 pages, 27 colour plates, many black-white illustrations

Chen Zizhuang: A Blending of Vital Elements - The Paintings of Chen Zizhuang (1913-1976) Cloth 
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  • Paintings of Chen Zizhuang (1913-1976). A Blending of Vital Elements. Cloth, 26x36cm
  • Introduction by Wu Fan
  • 171 full-size colour plates, first edition 1989

Sun Meilan: The Paintings of Wu Lizhu. Paperback 
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  • Paintings of Wu Lizhu. Paperback
  • Sun Meilan
  • 22 pages of which 19 with full-size colour and black-white illustrations. 1991, Beijing
  • Chinese-English edition

Taiwan Christensen: Pan Tien-Shou Paintings / P'an T'ien-shou hua chi. Paperback 
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  • Pan Tien-Shou Paintings / P'an T'ien-shou hua chi. Paperback. ca. 21x30 cm
  • Foreword translated by Robert J. Christensen
  • 152 pages. 5 pages text in english, (foreword 4, short biography 1 page), 3 pages in english and chinese list of the paintings, the other pages with text in chinese, 135 pages with 119 plates (46 in color). Titles in both Chinese and English. 1980

9780804745338 / Fraser: Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960. Hardcover 
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  • Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960. Hardcover
  • Sarah E. Fraser
  • xvi, 342 pages, numerous illustrations. 2003. Based on the careful study of hundreds of inaccessible wall paintings at Dunhuang, arguably Asia's largest and most important Buddhist site, the author shows that although critics celebrated spontaneous feats with brush and ink, artists at Dunhuang were heavily dependent on concrete tools such as sketches in the preparation of wall painting.

9780789203427 Benge: Private Hong Kong. Where East Meets West. Cloth 
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  • Private Hong Kong. Where East Meets West
  • by Sophie Benge, Photography by Fritz von der Schulenburg
  • 216 pages, with an index and with numerous colour illustrations. 1997. Interior decoration: Explores the interior design style of the island of Hong Kong, and includes a visitor's guide to the city

Pu Yen-chio's Paintings. Hardcover 
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  • Pu Yen-chio's Paintings. Hardcover, ca. 22x31 cm
  • 191 pages, with 190 colour plates (mainly human beings as subject)
  • Chinese-language edition, titles in Chinese and English language. 1990

Tsao Pen-yeh: Puppet Theatres in Hong Kong and Their Origins. Paperback 
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  • Puppet Theatres in Hong Kong and Their Origins. Paperback
  • by Tsao Pen-yeh
  • 100 pages, text in Chinese with an English translation, with many illustrations, a bibliography in English and in Chinese. 1987

9780674031845 Swartz: Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifiting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427-1900) Hardcover 
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  • Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifiting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427-1900) Hardcover
  • by Wendy Swartz
  • xii, 296 pages. 2008. This study of the posthumous reputation of a central figure in Chinese literary history, the mechanisms at work in the reception of his works, and the canonization of Tao himself and of particular readings of his works sheds light on the transformation of literature and culture in premodern China.

Liu Ruyang: Selected Paintings of Wang Yanzhang. Cloth 
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  • Selected Paintings of Wang Yanzhang. Cloth, ca. 26x36 cm
  • editor: Liu Ruyang
  • 18 pages text in Chinese and English, 75 full-size colour plates, biography. Beijing 1988

Wu Zuoren, Xiao Shufang, Ai Zhongxin: Selected Paintings of Wu Zuoren and Xiao Shufang. Cloth 
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  • Selected Paintings of Wu Zuoren and Xiao Shufang. Cloth, ca. 26x36cm
  • by Ai Zhongxin
  • 112 pages catalogue, in colour, with biographies, Chinese-English-French edition. 45 paintings by Wu Zuoren / 22 paintings by Xiao Shufang. Beijing: Second edition, 1985

Jiangsu Academy: The Selected Works from Jiangsu Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting. Cloth.  
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  • Selected Works from Jiangsu Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting. Cloth. ca. 26x36 cm.
  • 114 full-size colour illustrations, short biographies in Chinese, and photo's of all the artists
  • Catalogue is in both Chinese and English language
  • 1987

Liu Kaiqu: Selection of Sculptures by Ye Yushan. Paperback 
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  • Selection of Sculptures by Ye Yushan. Paperback, ca. 21 x 28 cm
  • Executive editor Du Qi. Introduction by Liu Kaiqu
  • 98 pages, with numerous, mainly colour, illustrations. 1986

Zhao Shiying: Sketches of Foreign Performing Artists in China. Paperback 
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  • Sketches of Foreign Performing Artists in China. Paperback, ca. 18.5x20.5 cm
  • by Zhao Shiying, compiled by Dance Magazine
  • 4 pages with introduction and list of contents, 110 pages with black-white illustrations
  • 1987

Catalogue: Special Exhibition of Horse Paintings. Paperback 
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  • Special Exhibition of Horse Paintings. Paperback. Ca. 20x30 cm
  • by Po-ting Lin and Hua-chih Chang. The National Palace Museum
  • 120 pages, 65 color plates, including 55 works from the Museum collection, text in Chinese and English

9780691009575 /1b/ Ledderose: Ten Thousand Things. Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. Paperback 
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  • Ten Thousand Things. Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. Paperback
  • by L. Ledderose. 266 pages, illustrated throughout, glossary, bibliography, index. 2001

9780300094473 / Barnhart: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. Paperback 
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  • Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. Paperback
  • by Richard M. Barnhart (Editor) / Chongzheng, Nie / Shaojun, Lang / Barnhart, Richard M. / Cahill, James / Hung, Wu
  • 402 pages, many colour and bw illustrations. Drawing on museum collections and archaeological sites in China, many previously closed to Westerners, a group of distinguished scholars chronicles the development of Chinese painting over three millennia and presents three hundred examples reproduced in color

Lui Wing-fong: Traditional Chinese Rubbing Techniques. Paperback 
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  • Traditional Chinese Rubbing Techniques. Paperback
  • by Lui Wing-fong
  • 77 pages, text in Chinese and English language, richly illustrated, very nice, informative, booklet.

0892641436 Edwards: The World Around the Chinese Artist. Aspects of Realism in Chinese Painting. Paperback 
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  • World Around the Chinese Artist. Aspects of Realism in Chinese Painting. Paperback
  • by Richard Edwards
  • 156 pages, with about 80 illustrations