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Glorious Qing
Decorative Arts in China, 1644-1911
A guided tour through centuries of exquisitely crafted objects
With over 250 color illustrations, this companion volume to Claudia Brown's Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644–1911 covers an array of superbly crafted objects of art produced...
ISBN: 9780295751917
more detailsLife and Afterlife in Ancient China
An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs
The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the...
ISBN: 9780295752365
more detailsChina's Hidden Century
1796-1912
Cultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated extraordinary resilience in a time of warfare, land shortages, famine, and uprisings. Innovation can be seen in material culture (including print, painting, calligraphy, textiles, jewelry, ceramics,...
ISBN: 9780295751856
more detailsRenegade Edo and Paris
Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec
A critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin-de-siècle Paris
Both the Edo period (1603–1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges...
ISBN: 9780932216076
more detailsThe Brush of Insight
Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court
Sheds light on the art and artists that gave material form to Mughal imperial vision
Over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from illustrators of manuscripts and albums to...
ISBN: 9780295751092
more detailsThe Ghost in the City
Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century China
A visual and social exploration of early modern Beijing's cultural milieu
In 1771 the artist Luo Ping (1733–99) left his native Yangzhou to relocate to the burgeoning hub of Beijing's Southern City. Over two decades, he...
ISBN: 9780295750958
more detailsOld Stacks, New Leaves
The Arts of the Book in South Asia
A deep dive into the visual forms, material contexts, social lives, and global circulations of books
In the twenty-first century, debates on the future of books and print culture have intensified with the rise of digital...
ISBN: 9780295751115
more detailsPorcelain for the Emperor
Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China
A new perspective for understanding the technology behind goods “made in China”
The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the...
ISBN: 9780295750828
more detailsSpatial Dunhuang
Experiencing the Mogao Caves
Constructed over a millennium from the fourth to fourteenth centuries CE near Dunhuang, an ancient border town along the Silk Road in northwest China, the Mogao Caves comprise the largest, most continuously created, and best-preserved...
ISBN: 9780295750200
more detailsLahore Cinema
Between Realism and Fable
A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature films
Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between...
ISBN: 9780295750811
more detailsThe Many Lives of the First Emperor of China
Tyrant or national hero? An interdisciplinary exploration of China's First Emperor
Ying Zheng, founder of the Qin empire, is recognized as a pivotal figure in world history, alongside other notable conquerors such as Alexander the Great,...
ISBN: 9780295750224
more detailsTemples in the Cliffside
Buddhist Art in Sichuan
Winner of the 2023 IPPY – Gold – Religion Nonfiction category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Award
Centuries of monumental sculpture, embedded in the landscape
At sixty-two meters the Leshan Buddha in southwest China is...
ISBN: 9780295749303
more detailsCarving Status at Kŭmgangsan
Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea
Honorable Mention for the 2024 James B. Palais Prize for English-Language Scholarly books published on Korea from the Association for Asian Studies
Winner of the 2022 Patricia Buckley Ebrey Prize sponsored by the American Historical Association
An...
ISBN: 9780295749259
more detailsThe City in Time
Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia
In The City in Time, Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of understanding contemporary artistic practices in a region that continues to linger in international perceptions as perpetually “postwar.” Focusing on art from the last...
ISBN: 9780295749235
more detailsArtisans in Early Imperial China
Early China is best known for the dazzling material artifacts it has left behind. These terracotta figures, gilt-bronze lamps, and other material remnants of the Chinese past unearthed by archaeological excavations are often viewed without...
ISBN: 9780295749389
more detailsOpening Kailasanatha
The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space
Stone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and goddesses but with gentler bodies enacting grace, warmth, seduction, and marriage,...
ISBN: 9780295747774
more detailsThe Social Life of Inkstones
Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China
Follows the path of an everyday object, from quarry to desk
An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token...
ISBN: 9780295749174
more detailsMaking Kantha, Making Home
Women at Work in Colonial Bengal
In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use...
ISBN: 9780295746999
more detailsA Fashionable Century
Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing
Honorable Mention for the 2023 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies
An innovative look at late-Qing cultural and fashion history
Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much about women’s participation...
ISBN: 9780295747187
more detailsWhat the Emperor Built
Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming
Winner of the 2023 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies
How imperial ideology is given shape in built space
One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor...
ISBN: 9780295746883
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