"With Admiral Perry's penetration of isolationist Japan in 1854, the current of Japanese trade flowed west again, bearing, among other orientalia, the colored woodcuts of Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige, and their contemporaries. Some of the most avid collectors of the Japanese prin…
"The first full-length study in English of the kibyōshi, a genre of woodblock-printed comicbook widely read in late eighteenth-century Japan that became an influential form of political satire. The volume is copiously illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collectio…
"Modern Chinese art and literature emerged amid the tremendous political and cultural turmoil in the first half of the twentieth century in China. In Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde, Xiaobing Tang studies the art and art theories of this period and argues that the most conseq…
"Modern Chinese art and literature emerged amid the tremendous political and cultural turmoil in the first half of the twentieth century in China. In Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde, Xiaobing Tang studies the art and art theories of this period and argues that the most conseq…