Painting Architecture: "Jiehua" in Yuan China, 1271–1368 9789888754236, 9888754238

Diversity in the Great Unity: Regional Yuan Architecture 9780824879839

Timber-framed architecture has long been viewed as an embodiment of Chinese civilization, a hierarchic society ruled by

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Eurasian Influences on Yuan China 9789814459730

This book documents the extraordinarily significant transfers and cultural diffusion between the Mongol Yuan Dynasty of

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Women in Song and Yuan China 1538144913, 9781538144916

Provides an original history of Chinese women during the pivotal Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368). Bret Hinsch explore

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Medieval Lazio: Studies in architecture, painting and ceramics 9780860541554, 9781407326771

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Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography 9780822383857

A collection of essays that develop ways of doing postcolonial studies in art history.

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Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China 0521393426, 9780521393423

This book examines the work of one of the most famous Chinese artists of all time. In this study, the first full-length

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The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties 9780674046023, 9780674072534, 2010007195, 0674046021

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire a millennium and a half in

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Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China 9780226709826

From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings

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Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth and Architectonics in Southern China 9780824861384

Allegorical Architecture offers the first detailed architectural analysis of built forms and building types of the minor

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The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain 9781503620018

The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the mom

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