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

Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China 9780520945678, 9780520258570

In this groundbreaking book, James Cahill expands the field of Chinese pictorial art history, opening both scholarly stu

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Civil Law in Qing and Republican China

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Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition 9780804764841

This study examines the emergence and evolution in China of a tradition of popular organization generally known under th

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Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China 0226354202, 9780226354200

In Qing Colonial Enterprise, Laura Hostetler shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue

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The Signature Style of Frans Hals: Painting, Subjectivity, and the Market in Early Modernity 9789048514595

The painters of the Dutch Golden Age have a reputation for favoring a dark, serious aesthetic and subdued, everyday scen

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The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China 0295999187, 9780295999180

An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object

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Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China 9780824874018

Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China’s vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919—a crucial period that mar

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Skies in early Mughal painting

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Skies in early Mughal painting

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Arranged Companions: Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China 0295749113, 9780295749112

Although commonly associated with patriarchal oppression, arranged marriages have adapted over the centuries to changing

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