Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, Hardcover

Reducere. A Beginner's Guide to Chinese Brush Painting teaches this ancient art form in an easy-to-understand way--no prior experience necessary! As one of t...

DescriptionTraditional Chinese painting is one of the purest art forms in existence, continuing as it does the techniques and themes that have been...

Reducere. Arthur Waley s brilliant and definitive translation of one of the foremost of all mystical books, Lao Tzu s Tao Te Ching, has become a modern class...

Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting chronicles the life of a modern art form. In the late 1910s Chinese painters began working outdoors. T...

Chinese brush painting is an ancient art, steeped in history, symbolism and ritual, and closely linked to Chinese calligraphy. This book takes you ...

Reducere. "A wonderful job So lucid, beautfully written, with great range and insight. This will set a new standard for short general histories of China." --...

Historical fantasy adventure, transporting readers back to an accurate representation of China in AD 960. Following a fall in the Shanghai market, ...

Reducere. Traditional Chinese painting was fundamentally an abstract art form. Artists did not seek to represent direct copies of the natural world; rather, ...

From Neolithic painted petroglyphs, early paintings on silk, and landscapes by twelfth-century literati to the traditional handscrolls being produc...

When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People's Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuri...

Understanding China and the Chinese is of paramount importance in today's world. With China's rapid economic growth and increasing political influe...

An unrivaled and comprehensive look at the 200-year story of Swire, a highly diversified, global group of companies including Cathay Pacific, with ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe moment you take control of your stories, you take control of your business and your life.You keep hearing how story is the latest-an...

This book revisits the central issue of how propaganda was understood within China's Communist Party system. The contributions to this volume captu...

Reducere. In recent years, we have mourned the deaths of many of the most prominent scholars in Chinese calligraphy and painting working in the United States...

We know a lot about the directors and stars of Italian cinema's heyday, from Roberto Rossellini to Sophia Loren. But what do we know about the Ital...

Reducere. This is the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In nine richly illustrated chapters Chiang Yee explores the aesthetics and the technique o...

A single-volume history told in a new way: mingling grand sweep narrative with deep-core, local, personal stories - all woven together with landsca...

The essays in this collection use a variety of methods and approaches to explore the global history of audience experience of Shakespearean perform...

Speaking of Wagner compiles in a new and highly accessible format celebrated author, lecturer, and Metropolitan Opera commentator William Berger's ...

DescriptionCelebrated British painter Rose Wylie--whose works are at once tactile, cerebral, and humorous--often draws her in uence from a wide ran...

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"China's Dream is the first book to explore the Communist Party as a cultural, rather than a political, entity. Kerry Brown takes us on a fascinati...

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...

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Reducere. This comprehensive history of the northern frontier of China through the first millennium B.C. details the formation of two increasingly distinct c...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Susan SelfIllustration(s): 40 color illustrations and 410 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 176Publication d...

In Varieties of State Regulation, Yukyung Yeo explores how the Chinese central party-state continues to oversee the most strategic sectors of its e...

The periodic table of elements is among the most recognizable image in science. It lies at the core of chemistry and embodies the most fundamental ...

Examines tea's origins and development from the eighth century to the Heian and medieval eras. This volume illustrates that modes of thinking and p...

America and Its Rivals provides an objective comparison of the United States, Russia, and China. It provides a solid foundation enabling the reader...