Oriental Art

An artist travels to Communist China to learn the secrets of Chinese ink painting Was it really reasonable to drop everything overnight and go off...

Manga symbols manpu in Japanese - are iconic or symbolic expressions used uniquely in manga, such as sweat drops, popping veins, and smoke puffs. ...

Staging Tianxia explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order known as tianxia (all under heaven) by focusing on the historical, performative,...

The book brings a new approach to see the art history of Hong Kong as a historical mediator and offers  alternative perspective to discern the curr...

At the heart of this book are twenty-eight real-life animals and the myths and literature, paintings, drawings, textiles and ceramics they have ins...

Featuring breathtaking photographs of masks created by a renowned twenty-first-century craftsman, this book provides a unique perspective into noh ...

This beautifully illustrated survey examines the art and artists of the Edo period, one of the great epochs in Japanese art. Together with the impe...

With essays on sojourning artists like Situ Qiao and local artists such as Tchang Ju Chi, Singaporean scholar and educator Yeo Mang Thong demonstra...

The Aura of Confucius is a ground-breaking study that reconstructs the remarkable history of Kongzhai, a shrine founded on the belief that Confuciu...

A sumptuous, beautiful collection of cyborgs, sushi, and monsters--this book is a feast for the eyes and a phosphorescent display of creativity. Ot...

Re-envisioning Japan is the first truly comprehensive book on Japanese export textiles of the Meiji period (1868 1912), featuring stunning examples...

This pack contains 200 high-quality origami sheets printed with beautiful and inspiring Japanese woodblock prints.These colorful origami papers wer...

Tang Taizong (Li Shimin), 2nd emperor of the Tang dynasty, commissioned six statues of his favourite warhorses to be carved in stone and serve as p...

Collecting 100 full-color pages, Black Tights features some of the best artists in Japan. With stockings as their primary themes, the artists often...

Articulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting, this b...

What does it mean to say that some of the best Chinese contemporary art is made in America, by Americans? Through words and images, this book chall...

This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijings Inside Out Art Museu...

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Ethan McGrath's setting of this well-known fourteenth-century macaronic text is expressive and rich, both h...