During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some of China's elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting. By examining literary archetypes, pa

Written by a team of eminent international scholars, this book is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some 3000 years.

"This is an outstanding piece of work: timely, essential, authoritative, and original. Cahill throws light on obscure artists, emerging styles and regional trad

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.