Three thousand years of Chinese painting

Author: Yang Xin
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Publish Date: 1997-01-01
Features: The Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting is the first volume of the China Culture and Civilization Series, jointly planned and edited by the China Foreign Languages Press and Yale University Press in the United States. It was simultaneously published in both Chinese and English editions and distributed worldwide. The book contains over 300,000 words and includes approximately 330 images of paintings, divided into six chapters. Each chapter is written by six distinguished art historians from China and the United States, who present unique methodologies and styles in their discussions on the origins, development, characteristics, schools, painters, and works of Chinese painting across different historical periods. The text introduces many previously unknown primary sources, allowing readers to explore the latest achievements in Chinese and Western research on Chinese painting. The images in the book are widely collected from renowned museums, galleries, and private collections in China, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Japan, with many of them being previously unpublished masterpieces. For easy reference, the book includes supplementary materials such as a chronological table of Chinese dynasties, a timeline of the emperors of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and a list of painters.