New Books in East Asian Art History

Christine I. Ho, Drawing From Life: Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People’s Republic of China (University of California Press, 2020)

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Nozomi Naoi, Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan (University of Washington Press, 2020)

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Yi Gu, Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting (Harvard University Asia Center, 2020)

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Aurelia Campbell, What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming (University of Washington Press, 2020)

LEARN ABOUT WHAT THE EMPEROR BUILT

Stephen H. Whiteman, Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe (University of Washington Press, 2020)

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Xue Lei, Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy (University of Washington Press, 2019)

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Yuhang Li, Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
(Columbia University Press, 2020)

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Eiren L. Shea, Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange (Routledge, 2020)

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Kristen Loring Brennan, Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China (Brill, 2020)

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Erin Schoneveld, Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early Avant-garde (Brill, 2019)

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Chinghsin Wu, Parallel Modernism Koga Harue and Avant-Garde Art in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2019)

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Mia Yinxing Liu, Literati Lenses: Wenren Landscape in Chinese Cinema of the Mao Era (University of Hawaii Press, 2019)

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Mariachiara Gasparini, Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images (University of Hawaii Press, 2019)

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Rachel Silberstein, A Fashionable Century
Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing (University of Washington Press, 2020)

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Allison R. Miller, Kingly Splendor: Court Art and Materiality in Han China (Columbia University Press, 2020)

Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde (Brill, 2020)

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Peggy Wang, The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2020)

Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit, Aesthetic Life
Beauty and Art in Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019)

John Finlay, Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France (Routledge, 2020)

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Nicole T. C. Chiang, Emperor Qianlong’s Hidden Treasures: Reconsidering the Collection of the Qing Imperial Household (Hong Kong University Press, 2019)

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