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Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the...

Featuring beautiful photographs and insightful commentary this Chinese gardening book is a must have for any gardening or zen enthusiast.Celebrating the pleasures of garden living enjoyed by the elite of late imperial China, this book brings together...

Chinese ceramics are among the most significant and widely collected decorative arts produced anywhere in the world, with a history that spans millennia. Despite the saturation of Chinese ceramics in global culture-in English, the word "china" has become...

This commentary on the Chinese masterpiece, The Classic of Tea, offers a fascinating perspective on this ancient pastime and art.The Classic of Tea, the first known monograph on tea in the world, was written in the 8th century by Lu Yu who devoted his...

Forty years after China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, this book revisits the visual and performing arts of the period - the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet. Probing...

This book combines Chinese painting techniques with twenty-four solar terms of traditional Chinese culture. According to the sequence of the four seasons-spring, summer, autumn, and winter-natural scenes are refined into a series of charming ink...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559392587Author Jonathan LandawFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to todayThroughout history, China has maintained one of the world's richest built civilizations. The nation's architectural achievements range from...

In Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs Fourth Edition, scholar C.A.S. Williams offers concise explanations of the important symbols and motifs relevant to Chinese literature, arts and crafts, and architecture. This reference book has been a standard among...

This richly illustrated book showcases a previously unseen and virtually unknown historical collection of Chinese ceramics, formed in the early twentieth century by George Eumorfopoulos, a pivotal figure in the appreciate of Asian art. Taken together,...

A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art historyThroughout Chinese history, dynastic time-the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties-has been the...

Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) was the first artist of the Chinese diaspora to achieve international recognition and was one of France's most important painters of the postwar era and beyond. His large abstract canvases were in step with those of New York School...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963974Author Fiona HawthorneFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 1510g

Internationally renowned and a crucial classroom text, The Arts of China has been revised and expanded by the late Michael Sullivan, with Shelagh Vainker. This new, sixth, edition has an emphasis on Chinese art history, not as an assemblage of related...

A unique and visionary generation of young Chinese artists are coming to prominence in the art world - just as China cements its place as the second largest art market on the planet. Building on the new frontiers opened up by the Chinese artists of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934774267Author Katherine Anne PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Birmingham Museum of ArtPublisher Birmingham Museum of ArtWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038522Author Marie LeducFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913536084Author Avril LeeFormat HardbackImprint Artpower International PublishingPublisher Artpower International Publishing

Facing China is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography and video. The book focuses on truth and memory in the portraiture process, from encounters between...

Jade is often thought of as something ancient and gathering dust in museums, but in China it is a vibrant part of modern life. More jade has been carved this century than in the rest of human history combined. For Chinese people, jade represents...

The Chinese picture-scroll, a long painting or calligraphic work held within a horizontal scrolling mount, has been China's pre-eminent aesthetic format for the last two millennia. This first extended history of the picture-scroll explores its...

Rome and China provides an updated history and analysis of contacts and mutual influence between two of ancient Eurasia's most prominent imperial powers, Rome and China.It highlights the extraordinary interconnectivity of ancient Eurasia which allowed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939117789Author Jay XuFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Asian Art Museum of San FranciscoPublisher Asian Art Museum of San FranciscoWeight(grams) 1928g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960987536Author Jane DebevoiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887341477Author Jia Ming WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Mingmandarin.comPublisher Mingmandarin.comWeight(grams) 163g

As one of the few ancient civilizations in the world, China features a multidimensional cultural deposit in consistency and unification, endowing her history with a sense of perplexity and enchantment. Together in this book, we shall follow the...

Create stunning papercraft works of art for every season with this creative and easy-to-follow Chinese paper quilling book.Quilling, the art of coiling and shaping narrow paper strips into 3-D designs, has been popular with crafters for some time but the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957144634Author Jing WuFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Asian Culture PressPublisher Asian Culture PressWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781678058593Author Xuanjun XieFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887341453Author Jia Ming WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Mingmandarin.comPublisher Mingmandarin.comWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887341422Author Jia Ming WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Mingmandarin.comPublisher Mingmandarin.comWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989763100Author Yunfeng ZhaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Canada International PressPublisher Canada International PressWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886770001Author Katherine M BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Greenpoint Books, LLCPublisher Greenpoint Books, LLCWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887341446Author Jia Ming WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Mingmandarin.comPublisher Mingmandarin.comWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869038470Author Caa (Organizer)Format PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Icultures PublicationsPublisher Icultures PublicationsWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887341439Author Jia Ming WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Mingmandarin.comPublisher Mingmandarin.comWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869059642Author Caa (Organizer)Format PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Icultures PublicationsPublisher Icultures PublicationsWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949057218Author Xiuqin ZhouFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Pennsylvania Museum PublicationsPublisher University of Pennsylvania Museum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781678058470Author Xuanjun XieFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781678061050Author Xuanjun XieFormat PaperbackPage Count 790Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 1039g