Further Reading
To deepen your understanding of concepts, ideas, and especially of histories studied each week, please delve deeper into the sources listed in the syllabus and consult the following sources. The bibliography is selective rather than comprehensive, and contains only English-language texts. If you come across a text that you feel ought to be included in this bibliography, please let me know.
Table of Contents (click on subject heading to be directed to relevant bibliography)
19th-century State and Society
Architecture and Material Culture in China
Art and History of Ming-QIng China (1368-1911), introductory textsBeijing Architecture in the 21st Century
Brush, Ink, and Tools of the Painter's Studio
Facing the "West:" The State Response
Facing the "West:" The Intellectual Response
Foreign Relations, Imperialism, and Trade
Imperial Print Culture (and comparative sources)see also Guiseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining)
Imperial-era Elites and Scholarship
Peasant Rebellion and Collective Violence
Portraits and Figure Painting (China and elsewhere)
Qing Imperial Robes and Textiles
Religions in Late Imperial China
Southern Inspection Tour Handscrolls
see also subject heading: Southern Tour Scrolls -- comparative sources (focusing particularly on secondary literature about the painting "Spring Festival on the River” ????? attributed to Zhang Zeduan)
Individual Artists (listed in alphabetical order by the artist's surname)
Guiseppe Castiglione
Jin Nong
Shen Zongqian
Su Renshan
Wang Shimin
Brush, Ink, and Tools of the Painter's Studio
Cahill, James. The painter's practice: how artists lived and worked in traditional China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Ledderose, Lothar. A. W. Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, Vol. 1998. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Li, Chu-tsing, and James C.Y. Watt, eds. The Chinese Scholar's Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
Schäfer, Dagmar. The crafting of the 10,000 things [electronic resource] : knowledge and technology in seventeenth-century China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. available online.
Sung, Ying-hsing. ChineseTtechnology in the Seventeenth Century: T'ien-kung k'ai-wu. Trans. E-tu Zen Sun and Shiou-chuan Sun. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1966.
Van Gulik, Robert. Chinese Pictorial Art as Viewed by the Connoisseur. Taipei: SMC Publishing, 1993.
Art and History of Ming-QIng China (1368-1911), introductory texts
Barnhart, Richard, and Yang Xiaoneng. Chinese Art and Archaeology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Cahill, James. The painter's practice: how artists lived and worked in traditional China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Chou Ju-hsi, ed. The Elegant Brush: Chinese Painting Under the Qianlong Emperor 1735-1795. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1985.
Chou, Ju-Hsi and Claudia Brown. Chinese Painting under the Qianlong Emperor. Chicago: Art Media Resources, 1999.
Clunas, Craig. Art in China. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Fong, Wen C., ed. Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Fong, Wen C., and James C Watt, eds. Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.
Hucker, Charles. China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese history and culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975.
Ledderose, Lothar. A. W. Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, Vol. 1998. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Rogers, Howard, ed. China, 5,000 Years. Guggenheim Museum Publications. New York: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1998.
Spence, Jonathan D. and John E. Wills, ed. From Ming to Ch'ing : Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
Spence, Jonathan D. Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-Hsi Emperor : Bondservant and Master. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988.
Sullivan, Michael. The arts of China. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984.
Thorp, Robert, and Richard Vinograd. Chinese Art and Culture. New York: Prentice Hall and Abrams, 2001.
Yang, Hsin; Barnhart, Richard; Cahill, James; Wu Hung; Yang Xin; Nie, Chongzheng; Lang, Shaojun. Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. Culture and Civilization of China Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Zarrow, Peter. China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
Imperial Print Culture (and comparative sources)
Bickford, Maggie. “Stirring the Pot of State: The Sung Picture-Book Mei-Hua Hsi-Shen P’u and its implications for Yuan Scholar Painting.” Asia Major 3rd series 6, no. 2 (1993): 169-225.
Carpo, Mario. Architecture in the Age of Printing. Tr. Sarah Benson. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.
Chartier, Roger. Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books. Tr. Lydia Cochrane. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992.
Chiu, Alfred K’ai-ming. “The Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan: Early Editions in American Collections.” Archives of Asian Art 5 (1951): 55-69.
Chügoku kodai hanga ten ????????(Exhibition of ancient Chinese prints). Machida: City Museum of Graphic Arts, 1988.
Clunas, Craig. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Dan Yinxin. “Shangguan Zhou yu ‘Wanxiao tang huazhuan’” ????????? (Shangguan Zhou and the Painted portraits by [the Master of] the Wanxiao tang) Meishu yuekan ???? no. 4 (April 1981): 54.
Edgren, Sören. "The Bibliographic Significance of Colour-Printed Books in the Shuibu Collection." Orientations 40, no. 3, (2009): 30.
______. Chinese Papermaking. San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1989.
______. Chinese Printed Books. San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1989.
______. "Yangzhou Printing and Book Culture in the Qing Period." In Lifestyle and Entertainment in Yangzhou. Eds. Lucie B. Olivova, Vibeke Bordah. Copenhagen: NIAS press, 2009.
Guo Weiqiu ??Zhongguo banhua shilüe ?????? (A Brief History of Chinese Prints). Beijing: Chaohua meishu chubanshe, 1962.
Hanan, Patrick. The Invention of Li Yu. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1988.
Hegel, Robert. Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, c1998.
Hu, Philip. Visible traces: rare books and special collections from the National Library of China. New York: Queens Borough Public Library; Beijing: National Library of China in association with Morning Glory Publishers, 2000.
Septg, Scarlett. "Form, Content, and Audience: A Common Theme in Painting and Woodblock-Printed Books of the Ming Dynasty." Ars Orientalis Vol. 27 (1997): 1-26.
Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Kobayashi Hiromitsu. ????. “Chügoku jinbutsu hanga shiron I: Meidai dentörui no sözu in miru shözöga kö” ????????I: ??????????????? (Essays on Chinese Figure Prints I: Portrait painting in Ming-dynasty illustrations). Bigaku bijutsushigaku ????? (Aesthetics and Art History) 2 (March 1987): 56-72.
Kobayashi Hiromitsu. ????. “Chügoku jinbutsu hanga shiron II: Tei Kö hen kasei han Kaishien gaden yoji kö” ????????II: ???????????????(Essays on Chinese Figure Prints II: The Jiaqing edition of the Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual, Fourth Edition, compiled by Ding Gao). Bigaku bijutsushigaku ????? (Aesthetics and Art History) 3 (March 1988): 53-70.
Kobayashi Hiromitsu. ???? Chügoku no hanga: Tödai kara shindai made ??????????????[Chinese woodblock illustrations from the Tang through the Qing dynasty] (Tokyo: Töshindo, 1995).
Kobayashi Hiromitsu. “Publishers and their Hua-pu in the Wan-li Period: The Development of the Comprehensive Painting Manual in the Late Ming.” Gugong xueshu jikan [National Palace Museum Research Quarterly]. 22, no. 2 (Winter 2004): 167-99.
Luo Shubao ??? Zhongguo gudai yinshua shi ??????? (History of ancient Chinese printing). Beijing: Yinshu gongye chubanshe, 1993.
Murray, Julia. “The Hangzhou Portraits of Confucius and Seventy-two Disciples (Sheng xian tu): Art in the Service of Politics.” Art Bulletin 8-18.
Park, J.P. "Ensnaring the public eye: Painting manuals of late Ming China (1550--1644) and the negotiation of taste." University of Michigan Ph.D. dissertation, 2007.
Qingdai baokan tuhua jicheng ???????? (Compendium of illustrations in Qing newspapers). 13 vols. Beijing: Xinhua shudian, 2001.
Shangguan Zhou. Wanxiao tang huazhuan (Painted portraits by [the Master of] the Wanxiao tang) Changting, Fujian, 1743; Reprint, Shanghai: Shanghai shuju chubanshe, 1987.
Te Heesen, Anke. The World in a Box.: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia. Tr. Ann Hentschel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Tsuruta Takeyoshi????? “Kaishien gaden ni tsuite: sono seiritsu to Edo gadan e no eikyö” ??????????????????????(The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual: Its use and influence on Edo-period painting circles) Bijutsu kenkyü ????283 (September 1972): 81-92.
Wang Qingzheng. “The Arts of Ming Woodblock-printed Images and Decorated Paper Albums,” in The Chinese Scholar’s Studio. Ed. Chu-tsing Li et al. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
Wu, KT. “Ming printing and printers.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies vol. 7 (1942-43): 203-268.
Yoshida Eri. ????“Edo chüki no Ri Yu: Imeji in kansuru hitotsu köstasu” ?????????????????[Note on Japanese Literati Painting (Bunjinga): A Consideration of Images of Li Yü in Eighteenth-Century Japan] Gakushuin daigaku jinbun kagaku ronshu 8 (1999): 27-52.
Zeitlin, Judith, et. al., eds. Writing and materiality in China : essays in honor of Patrick Hanan. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center for Harvard-Yenching Institute : distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003.
Zheng Zhenduo. Zhongguo gudai muke hua xuanji ?????????(Selection of ancient Chinese woodblock prints) Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1985.
On Guiseppe Castiglione, the Jesuits, and print culture
Beurdeley, Cécile and Michel. Guiseppe Castiglione: A Jesuit Painter at the Court of the Chinese Emperors. London: Lund Humphries, esp. 79-88.
From Beijing to Versailles, Artistic Relations Between China and France. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1997.
Fuchs, W. “Der Kupferdruck in China vom 10. Bis 19. Jahrhundert.” Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1950): 67-87.
Fuchs, W. “Die Entwürfe der Schlachtenkupfer der Kienlung – und Taokuangzeit.” Monumenta Serica 9 (1944): 101-122.
Leverenz, Niklas. "From Painting to Print: The Battle of Qurman from 1760." Orientations 41, no. 4 (May 2010): 48-53. call number DS501 O69 v. 41, no. 4 2010
Newby, Laura. "Copper Plates for the Qianlong Emperor: from Paris to Peking via Canton." Journal of Early Modern History 16, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 161-199.
Nie Chongzheng ???. Qingdai yuzhi tongbanhua ???????("Palace Copper-plate Etchings of the Qing Dynasty: Qianlong's Wars Commemorated on Copper Plates by Guiseppe Castiglione"). Beijing: International Cultural Publishing, 1999.
Pelliot, Paul. “Les Conquêtes de l’Empereur de la Chine.” T’oung Pao. 20 (1921): 183-275.
Pelliot, Paul. “Les Conquêtes de l’Empereur de la Chine.” T’oung Pao. 24 (1932): 125-127.
Pirazzoli-T’Serstevens, M. Grauvures des Conquêtes de l’Empereur de la Chine K’ien-long au Musée Guimet. Paris, 1969.
Spee, Clarissa von, ed. “Printing at Court.” In The Printed Image in China: From the 8th to the 21st Centuries, 110-127. London: The British Museum Press, 2010.
Strassberg, Richard E. "War and Peace: Four Intercultural Landscapes." In China on Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century. Eds. Marcia Reed and Paola Dematte, 88-137. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2011.
Szrajber, Tanya. “The Victories of the Emperor Qianlong.” Print Quarterly 23, no. 1 (March 2006): 28-47.
Torres, Pascal. Les Batailles de l’Empereur de Chine: La gloire de Qianlong célébrée par Louis XV, une commande royale d’estampes. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2009.
Manchu Rule and Ethnicity
Crossley, Pamela Kyle. Orphan Warriors : Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Crossley, Pamela Kyle. The Manchus. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
Crossley, Pamela Kyle. A Translucent Mirror : History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Dennerline, Jerry. The Chia-Ting Loyalists : Confucian Leadership and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
Elliott, Mark C. The Manchu Way : The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Kahn, Harold. Monarchy in the Emperor's Eyes: Image and Reality in the Ch'ien-lung Reign. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Leong, Sow-Theng, Tim Wright and G. William Skinner, ed. Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and Their Neighbors. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Lipman, Jonathan Neaman. Familiar Strangers : A History of Muslims in Northwest China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
Michael, Franz H. The Origin of Manchu Rule in China; Frontier and Bureaucracy as Interacting Forces in the Chinese Empire. New York: Octagon Books, 1965.
Millward, James A. Beyond the Pass : Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Oxnam, Robert B. Ruling from Horseback: Manchu Politics in the Oboi Regency, 1661-1669. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
Spence, Jonathan D. and John E. Wills, ed. From Ming to Ch'ing : Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
Spence, Jonathan D. Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-Hsi Emperor : Bondservant and Master. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988.
Wakeman, Frederic E. The Great Enterprise : The Manchu Reconstruction of the Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Architecture and Material Culture in China
See 2004 bibliography on topic, Princeton University (click here for PDF)
Southern Inspection Tour Handscrolls
Chang, Michael G. “Fathoming Qianlong: Imperial activism, the southern tours, and the politics of water control, 1736-1765.” Late Imperial China. 24, no. 2 (December 2003).
Columbia University, “Recording the Grandeur of the Qing: The Southern Inspection Tours of the Kangxi and Qianlong Emperors.” http://www.learn.columbia.edu/nanxuntu/start.html
Crossley, Pamela Kyle. The wobbling pivot, China since 1800: an interpretive history. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Feng, Mingzhu, ed. Emperor Ch'ien-lung's grand cultural enterprise. Catalog of exhibition held at the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 2002. (Chinese and English). Taipei: Guoli gugong bowuyuan, 2002.
Hearn, Maxwell K. “Document and Portrait: the Southern Tour Paintings of Kangxi and Qianlong.” Phoebus 6, no. 1 (1988): 91-131.
Heilesen, B. “Bilder bon der Südreise des Kaisers Kangxi.” In Palastmuseum Peking: Schätze aus der Verbotenen Stadt. Ed. Lothar Ledderose, 96-117. Frankfurt, 1985. N 7342 P34 1985
Heilesen, B. “Southern Journey.” Bulletin of the Museum of Eastern Antiquities no. 52 (1980): 89-144. DS 714 S86
Nie Chongzheng ???? “Qingdai lishihua juzuo: Kangxi nanxuntu” ????????????? [A Large-scale History Painting of the Qing Dynasty: The Kangxi Southern Tour Pictures]. Gugong Bowuyuan Yuankan ??????? no. 2 (1981): 75-79.
Rawski, Evelyn, and Jessica Rawson, eds. The Three Emperors, 1662-1795. London : Royal Academy of Arts, 2005.
Spence, Jonathan. Ts’ao Yin and the K’ang-hsi Emperor, Bondservant and Master. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1966. DS 754.4 T72 S7
Wu, Silas. Passage to Power. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1979. DS 754.4 C53 W95 1979
http://www.chinaheritagenewsletter.org/features.php?searchterm=009_expeditions.inc&issue=009
Southern Tour Scrolls -- comparative sources (focusing particularly on the "Spring Festival on the River” ????? attributed to Zhang Zeduan):
BGD. “Scholarship: International Conference on Qingming Shanghe tu and Song Dynasty Genre Paintings, Beijing, 10-12 October 2005,” China Heritage Newsletter no. 4 (December 2005): http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/scholarship.php?searchterm=004_qingmingconf.inc&issue=004
Hansen, Valerie. “The Beijing Qingming Scroll and its Significance for the Study of Chinese History.” published under the title “Mystery of the Qingming Scroll and Its Subject: The Case Against Kaifeng.” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 26 (1996): 183-200. Available with black and white images at http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/materials/hansen-qingming-scroll.html
Johnson, Linda Cooke. “China’s Pompeii: Twelfth-century Dongjing.” Historian 58, no. 1 (Autumn 1995): 49-69.
Liu, Heping. “The Water Mill and Northern Song Imperial Patronage of Art, Commerce, and Science.” The Art Bulletin 84, no. 4 (December 2002): 566-599.
Meng Yuanlao. "Recollections of the Northern Song capital." In Hawai'i reader in traditional Chinese culture. Victor Mair, et al, eds. Tr. Stephen West, 405-22. Honolulu: Univ. Hawaii, 2005.
Murray, Julia. “Water Under a Bridge: Further Thoughts on the Qingming Scroll." Journal of SungYuan Studies 27 (1997): 99-108.
_____. “What is ‘Chinese Narrative Illustration?’” The Art Bulletin 80, no. 4 (December 1998): 602-615.
Sturman, Peter. “Cranes above Kaifeng: The Auspicious Image at the Court of Huizong.” Ars Orientalis vol. XX (1990): 33-68.
Tsao, Hsingyuan. “Unraveling the Mystery of the Handscroll Qingming shanghe tu.” Journal of SungYuan Studies 33 (2003): 155-180.
Vinograd, Richard, ed. The southern metropolis: pictorial art in 17th-century Nanjing. Exhibition 'The Southern Metropolis: Pictorial Art in 17th-century Nanjing', February 13 to May 5, 2002. Stanford: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2002.
Yang Dongsheng, ed. Gusu fan hua tu ("Flourishing Suzhou" by Xu Yang) ????? (??). Tianjin: Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe, 2009.
Qing Imperial Robes and Textiles
Berger, Patricia. “Ritual.” In China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795. Eds. Evelyn Rawski and Jessica Rawson, 118-21. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2005.
Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, and Georges Métailié, edi- tors. Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. Sinica Leidensia, vol. 79. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2007.
Bray, Francesca. Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. HQ 1768 B72 1997
Brown, Claudia. Weaving China’s Past: The Amy S. Clague Collection of Chinese Textiles. Hong Kong: Phoenix Art Museum, 2000.
Burnham, H.B. Chinese Velvets: A Technical Study. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959.
Cammann, Schuyler. “Birds and Animals as Ming and Ch’ing Badges of Rank.” Arts of Asia (May–June 1991).
_____. “Chinese Mandarin Squares: A brief catalog of the Letcher Collection. University Museum Bulletin 17, no. 3 (1953).
_____. “Costume in China, 1644-1911.” Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 75, no. 326 (Autumn 1979): 3-19.
_____. “Development of the Mandarin Square.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 8, no. 2 (1944): 71-130.
_____. “Embroidery Techniques in Old China.” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America Vol. 16 (1962): 6-40.
_____. “The Making of Dragon Robes.” T'oung Pao, Second Series, Vol. 40, Livr. 4/5 (1951): 297-321.
_____. “A Robe of the Ch’ien-lung Emperor.” The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery Vol. 10 (1947): 8-19.
Chung, Young Yang. The Art of Oriental Embroidery. New York: Scribner, 1980. NK 9272 C48 2005.
_____. Silken Threads: A History of Embroidery in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005. NK9272 C48 2005
Chang Shana ???, ed. Zhongguo zhixiu fushi quanji ???????? [Corpus of Chinese Fabric, Embroidery, and Finery]. 5 vols. Beijing: Xinhua shudian, 2004.
Chen Juanjuan ???. Zhongguo zhixiu fushi lunji ???????? Beijing: Zijincheng chubanshe, 2005.
Chung, Young Y. The Art of Oriental Embroidery: History, Aesthetics and Techniques. New York: Bell and Hyman, 1979. ISBN. 0 684 16248 2
Dickinson, Gary, and Linda Wifflesworth. Imperial Wardrobe. Rev. Ed. Berkeley, Toronto: Ten Speed Press, 1990. GT 1755 C6 D53 2000 folio
Finnane, Antonia. Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. GT 1555 F56 2008
_____. Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture. Clayton, Australia : Monash Asia Institute, 1999. HQ 1767 D74 1999
Gao Chunming. Chinese Dress and Adornment through the Ages: The Art of Classic Fashion. Cypi Press.
Gao Chunming ???. Zhongguo chuantong zhixiu wenyang ????????. Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, 2005.
Gao, Hanyu. Chinese Textile Designs. London: Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN. 0 670 81897 6
Harada Yoshito ????. Zhongguo fuzhuangshi yanjiu ??????? [Research on Chinese Dress]. Tr. Chang Renxia, Guo Shufen, Su Zhaoxiang. Hefei: Huangshan shushe, 1988. GT1555.H25 1988
Hua Mei ???Zhongguo fushi ????. Beijing: Wuzhou chuanbo chubanshe, 2004.
Hua, Mei. Chinese Clothing. Tr. Yu Hong and Zhang Lei. Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, 2004. GT 1555.H8313 2004.
Jacobsen, Robert D. Imperial Silks: Ch’ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. 2 vols. Hong Kong: Pressroom Printer, 2000.
Jiang Bing ??. Zhonghua fushi wenhua ?????? [Dress culture in China] [Taiyuan shi] : Shanxi ren min chu ban she, [1991]. GT1555 J53 1991
Kuhn, Dieter. “Textile Technology: Spinning and Reeling.” In Science and Civilization in China. Vol 5, part IV. Ed. Joseph Needham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. DS 721 N37 v.5 pt.4
Kwan, Winnie, et. al. Heaven’s Embroidered Cloths: One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles. Hong Kong: Urban Council of Hong Kong, 1995.
Li, Lillian M. China’s Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842-1937. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1981. HD9926 C62.L69 1981
Lin Shuxin ???. Yijin xing – Zhongguo fushishi xiangguan zhi yanjiu ?????????????? [The History of Chinese Textiles, Costumes, and Accessories]. Taipei: Guoli lishi bowuguan, 1995. GT1555.L55 1995
Lorentz, H.A.. A View of Chinese Rugs from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972. ISBN. 0 7100 6912 x
Mailey, Jean. Embroidery of Imperial China. New York: China Institute in America, 1978. NK 9283 A1 M22 1978
Medley, Margaret. The Illustrated Regulations for Ceremonial Paraphernalia of the Ch’ing Dynasty. London: Hanshan tang, 1982. DS 754.14 M44 1982
Priest, Alan. Costumes from the Forbidden City. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945. NK 4783 P44 N56 1974
Rossabi, Morris. “Behind the Silk Screen: Movements of Weavers in Asia, Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries.” Orientations 29, no. 3 (March 1998): 84-9.
Rutherford, Judith, and Jackie Menzies, eds. Celestial Silks: Chinese Religious and Court Textiles. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004.
Rutherford, Judith, et. al. Elegance of the Qing court: reflections of a dynasty through its art. Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2008. NK 1068 J593 2008
Schäfer, Dagmar and Dieter Kuhn. Weaving an Economic Pattern in Ming Times (1368-1644): The Production of Silk Weaves in the State-Owned Silk Workshops. Heidelberg: Edition Forum, 2002.
Scott, A.C. Chinese Costume in Transition. Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Tokyo: Donald Moore, 1958. GT1555.S42
Shan Guoqiang ???, ed. Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin quanji 52: Zhishi shuhua ????????????52????? [The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace 52: Embroidered calligraphy and pictures]. Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, 2005.
Shen Congwen ???. Zhongguo gudai fushi yanjiu ???????? [A Study of Premodern Chinese Dress]. Hong Kong: Shangwu yinshu guan, 1992.
Shih, Minhsiung. The Silk Industry in Ch’ing China. Tr. Sun Eduzen. Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History, no. 5. Ann Arbor, 1976. HD 9926 C62 S55 E5 1976
Steele, Valerie, and John S. Major, eds. China Chic: East Meets West. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c1999. GT 1555 S8 1999
Sun Ji ??. Zhongguo gu yufu luncong ??????? [Collection of Essays on Ancient Chinese Dress and Carriages]. Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 2001.
Sung Ying-hsing. Tiangong kaiwu ?????Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century. Tr. E-tu Sun and Shiou-chuan Sun. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1966.
Vainker, S.J. Chinese Silk: A Cultural History. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2004. TS 1655 C6 V35 2004
Vollmer, John. Celebrating virtue : prestige costume and fabrics of late imperial China. Toronto: Textile Museum of Canada, 2000. NK 4783 A1 V637 2000
_____. Decoding Dragons, Status Garments in Ch’ing Dynasty China. Eugene: University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1983. GT 1555 V917 1983
_____. Dressed to Rule: 18th-Century Court Attire in the Mactaggart Art Collection. Edmonton: University of Alberta Museums, 2007. GT 1755 C5 M32 2007
_____. “An Evening with Sandy and Cécile Mactaggart, Discussing their Chinese Textile Collection.” Orientations 36, no. 8 (2005): 84-7.
_____. Five Colours of the Universe: Clothes and Fabrics from the Ch’ing Dynasty. Edmonton: Edmonton Art Gallery, 1980. NK 4783 A1 E24 1980
_____. In the Presence of the Dragon Throne: Ch’ing Dynasty Costume in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1977. GT 1555 V92 1977
_____. Silks for thrones and altars : Chinese costumes and textiles : from the Liao through the Qing dynasty. Paris : Myrna Myers, [2003]. NK 8883 A1 V65 2003
_____, ed. Textiles as primary sources : proceedings of the first Symposium of the Textile Society of America, Minneapolis Institute of Art, September 16-18 1988. St. Paul, Minn.: Textile Society of America, 1988. TS 1760 T355 1988
Vollmer, John, and Jacqueline Simcox. Emblems of Empire: Selections from the Mactaggart Art Collection. Edmonton: University of Alberta Art Museums, 2009. N 7343.5 V89 2009
Watt, James CY, ed. When Silk was Gold. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.
Wilson, Ming. "New Research on the Ceremonial Paraphernalia at the V&A." Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 68 (2003-04): 51-59.
Wilson, Verity. Chinese Dress. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986. GT 1555 L847 1990
_____. Chinese Textiles. London : V & A ; New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, 2005. NK 8884 A1 W44 2005
Wong, Hwei Lian and San Tan, eds. Power Dressing: Textiles for Rulers and Priests from the Chris Hall Collection. Singapore: Asian Civilizations Museum, 2006.
Yan Yong, Fang Hongjun, ??, ??? eds. Tianchao yiguan: Gugong Bowuyuan cang Qingdai gongting fushi jingpinzhan ???????????????????? [The Splendors of Imperial Costume: Qing Court Attire from the Palace Museum]. Beijing: Palace Museum, 2008.
Zang, Yingchun. Chinese Traditional Costumes and Ornaments. Tr. Li Zhurun, Wang Dehua, and Gu Yingchen. Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, 2003.
Zhang Qiong?? ed. Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin quanji 51: Qingdai gongting fushi ????????????51??????? [The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace 51: Costumes and Accessories of Emperors and Empresses of the Qing Dynasty]. Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, 2005.
Zhao Feng ??. Zhongguo sichou tongshi ?????? [A General History of Chinese Silk]. Suzhou: Suzhou daxue chubanshe, 2005. HD 9926 C62 Z62 2005 folio
Zhao, Feng, and Yu Zhiyong, eds. Treasures in Silk: An Illustrated History of Chinese Textiles. Hong Kong: ISAT/Costume Squad, Ltd., 1999.
Zhao Xiuzhen ???, ed. Beijing wenwu jingcui daxi: Zhixiu juan ????????: ??? [Gems of Beijing cultural relics series: Textiles and embroidery]. Beijing: Beijing chubanshe, 2001.
Zhou, Xun and Gao, Chunming. 5000 Years of Chinese Costumes. The Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 1987. ISBN. 9620750551
Zhou Xun and Gao Chuming ??????. Zhongguo fushi wuqian nian ??????? [Five Thousand Years of Chinese Costume]. Shanghai: Xuelin chubanshe, 1984. GT 1555 F565 1987
_____. Zhongguo lidai funü zhuang shi ???? ????. Xianggang: Sanlian shudian (Xianggang) youxian gong si ; [Shanghai]: Shanghai xuelin chubanshe, 1988. GT 1555 C54 1988 folio
_____. Zhongguo lidai fushi. ??????? [Shanghai]: Xuelin chubanshe, [1983 or 1984]? GT 1555 C55 1984 folio
Zong Fengying ??? ed. Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin quanji 50: Ming Qing zhixiu ????????????50????? [The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace 50: Textiles and Embroideries of the Ming and Qing Dynasties]. Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, 2005.
Zong, Fengying. Heavenly Splendour: The Edrina Collection of Ming and Qing Imperial Costumes. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Art Museum, 2009.
Theoretical and comparative sources on textiles and clothing:
Appadurai, Arjun, ed. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Aple, Chris. Objects: reluctant witnesses to the past. London; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Barthes, Roland. The Fashion System. Trans. Matthew Ward and Richard Howard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Barnes, Ruth and Joanne B. Eicher, eds. Dress and Gender: Making Meaning in Cultural Contexts. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1992.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Braudel, Fernand. Civiliztion and Capitalism, 15th – 18th Centuries. Vol 1: The Structures of Everyday Life. Trans Sian Reynolds. London: Collins, 1981.
Craik, Jennifer. The Face of Fashion: Cultural Studies in Fashion. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Hollander, Anne. Seeing Through Clothes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Multhesius, Anna. Studies in Silk in Byzantium. London: Pinar Press, 2004.
Schiffer, Michael B. Anthropological Perspectives on Technology. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. GN 406 A72 2001
Simmel, Georg. “Fashion.” American Journal of Sociology. 66, no. 6 (May 1957): 541-58.
Veblen, Thorstein. “The Economic Theory of Women’s Dress.” In Essays in Our Changing Order. Ed. L. Ardzrooni, 65-77. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1964.
Weiner, Annette B. and Septe Schneider, eds. Cloth and Human Experience. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
Portraits and Figure Painting (China and elsewhere)
Barnhart, Richard. “Survivals, Revivals, and the Classical Tradition of Chinese Figure Painting.” In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chinese Painting, 143-207. Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1972.
Berger, Harry, Jr. “Fictions of the Pose: Facing the Gaze in Early Modern Literature.” Representations 46 (Spring 1994): 87-120.
Claypool, Lisa."Figuring the Social Body: Painting Manuals in Late Imperial China." draft manuscript.
Elvin, Mark. “Tales of Shen and Xin: Body-Person and Heart-Mind in China during the Last 150 Years.” In Fragments for a History of the Human Body. Ed. Michel Ferer, et. al., 2: 266-349. New York: Urzone, 1989
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Feher, Michel, ed. Fragments for a History of the Human Body. 3 vols. New York: Urzone, 1989.
Goldberg, Stephen J. “Figures of Identity: Topoi and Gendered Subject in Chinese Art.” In Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice. Ed. Roger T Ames et al, 33-58. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Hay, John. ‘The Human Body as a Microcosmic Source of Macrocosmic Values in Calligraphy.’ In Theories of the Arts in China. Eds. Susan Bush and Christian Murck, 74-104. Princeton, 1983.
Hay, John. “Boundaries and Surfaces of Self and Desire in Yuan Painting.” In Boundaries in China. Ed. John Hay, 124-70. London, 1994.
Hay, John. “The Body Invisible in Chinese Art?” In Body, Subject, and Power in China. Eds. Tani Barlow and Angela Zito, 42-77. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Stuart, Sept; Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida. Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Vinograd, Richard Ellis. Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600-1900. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Wu, Hung, and Katherine Tsiang, eds. Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Zito, Angela, and Tani E Barlow, eds. Body, Subject & Power in China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Individual Artists (alphabetical order by the artist's surname): Select Bibliographies
Guiseppe Castiglione
see sources under "Castiglione and print culture"Jin Nong
Chou, Ju-hsi. “Rubric and Art History: The Case of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.” Phoebus 6, no. 2 (1991): 329-50.Hsü, Ginger Cheng-chi. “Chin Nung: A Man of Elegant and Vulgar Businesses.” In A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow, 163-205. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. (chapter 6)
_____. “Incarnations of the Blossoming Plum.” Ars Orientalis 26 (1996): 141-75.
_____. “Merchant Patronage of Eighteenth Century Yangzhou Painting.” In Artists and Patrons. Ed. Chu-tsing Li, 215-221. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989.
_____. “Scholar, Artist, and Art Dealer: Jin Nong in Yangzhou.” In The Eccentric Painters of Yangzhou. Edited by Vito Giacalone, 23-7. New York: China House Gallery, Chinese Institute in America, 1990.
_____. “The Drunken Demon Queller: Chung K’uei in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Painting.” Taida Journal of Art History 3 (1996): 141-75.
Li, Chu-tsing. “The Bamboo Painting of Chin Nung.” Archives of Asian Art 27 (1972-74): 53-70.
Kohara Hironobu ????. “Kin Nö hitsu Riku Ei jo kenmei to shakudoku ni tsuite” (Lu Ying’s inscription written by Jin Nong and Jin Nong’s letters). Yamato Bunka ?????77 (1987): 23-44.
Kohara Hironobu
????. Kin Nö ??(Jin Nong). Bunjinga suihen ????? 9. Tokyo: Chuö köronsha, 1976.
Li, Chu-tsing. “The Bamboo Painting of Chin Nung.” Archives of Asian Art 27 (1972-74): 53-70.
Lin Pengcheng, ed. ???? Jin Dongxin shuhua ce ?????? Hangzhou: Xiling yinshe chubanshe, 2007.
Liu Fangming, ed. ????Jin Nong yishu zhenpin ji ???????? Yangzhou : Guangling shushe, 2007.
Qi Yuan, ed. ?? ? Jin Nong shuhua biannian tumu ????????? Beijing : Renmin meishu chubanshe, 2007.
Xue Yongnian ???. Yangzhou baguai kaobian ji????????? Nanjing: Jiangsu meishu chubanshe, 1992.
Zhang Yüming. “Jin Nong huihua qishi shijian zhi kaobian” In Yangzhou baguai kaobian ji ???????, 196-204. Edited by Xue Yongnian ???. Nanjing: Jiangsu meishu chubanshe, 1992.
Studies of epigraphic culture:
Brown, Shana. Pastimes: From Art and Antiquarianism to Modern Chinese Historiography (University of Hawai‘i Press, forthcoming in 2011).
Elman, Benjamin A. From philosophy to philology: intellectual and social aspects of change in Late Imperial China. [Cambridge, Mass.]: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University; London: Distributed by Harvard University Press, [1990].
Harrist, Robert E. The landscape of words: stone inscriptions from early and medieval China. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2008.
Leaves of enchantment, bones of inspiration: the dawn of Chinese studies in Canada: an exhibition of Chinese rare books. (eds. Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto & the Royal Ontario Museum.). Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2010.
Ruitenbeek, Klaas. Chinese shadows: stone reliefs, rubbings and related works of art from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 2003.
Wang, Renchong; You, Xuehua. Symposium Proceedings on Ancient Chinese Seals. Chicago: Art Media Resources, 2000.Shen Zongqian
Vigneron, Frank. “L'étude sur la peinture de Bateau grain de moutarde de Shen Zongqian, porte parole de l'orthodoxie picturale chinoise à la fin du dix-huitième siècle: Thèse pour l'obtention du diplôme de docteur de l'université Paris 7, spécialité études d'extrême orient.” Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1999.
Vigneron, Frank. Shen Zongqian: Jiezhou xuehua bian, un traite de peinture chinoise du xviiieme siecle. S.l: s.n., 1998.
Yang Yinglin ???. Shen Zongqian ???. Beijing: Zhongguo renmin daxue chubanshe, 2003.
Su Renshan
Chou, Ju-hsi and Claudia Brown. Transcending Turmoil: Paintings at the Close of China’s Empire 1796-1911. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992. pp. 287-97, 359-60.
Guangdong shuhua lu ?????. Hong Kong: The Art Gallery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1981.
Jen, Yu-wen. Su Jen-shan, Eccentric Genius of Kwangtung: His Life and Art. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, 1970.
Kao, Mayching, ed. The Art of Su Liupeng and Su Renshan. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990. ND 1049 S746 A4 1990
Koon, Yeewan. “Literati iconoclasm : violence and estrangement in the art of Su Renshan (1814- c.1850).” Ph.D. dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2006.
Lee, Kwok-ying. Su Jen-shan. Hong Kong: City Museum and Art Gallery, 1966.
Li, Chu-tsing. Landscape Paintings y Kwangtung Masters during the Ming and Ch’ing Periods. Hong Kong: The Art Gallery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973.
_____. “Su Jen-shan (1814-1849), The Rediscovery and Reappraisal of a Tragic Cantonese Genius.” Oriental Art 16 (Winter 1970): 349-59.
Ryckmans, Pierre. The Life and Work of Su Renshan: Rebel, Painter and Madman, 1814-1849? Paris, Center de Publication de l'U.E.R. Extrême-Orient, Asie du Sud-Est, de l'Université de Paris, 1970.
Tsao, Jung Ying. Chinese Paintings of the Middle Qing Dynasty. San Francisco: San Francisco Graphic Society, 1987, pp. 193-95.
Wang Gai
Wang Shimin
Chang, Tsenti Joseph. “A Study of Large Emerging from Small in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taibei.” Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kansas, 1996. (available online through the Dissertation Abstracts database)
Chen Ci, Chen Chuanxi ??, ???. Wang Shimin ???. Shijiazhuang: Hebei jiaoyu chubanshe, 2009.
Chen Kuilin ???, ed. Baoyu ge shuhua lu ??????. Beijing: Beijing tushuguan chubanshe, 2007.
Taicang xianzheng xiewenshi weiyuanhui ??????????? eds., Wang Shimin yu loudong huapai ????????. Hangzhou: Zhejiang renmin meishu chubanshe, 1994.
Fong, Wen C. “Wang Hui and Repossessing the Past.” In Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717). Ed. Maxwell K. Hearn, 3-48. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008, esp. 3-21.
Wicks, Ann Elizabeth Barrott. “Wang Shih-Min (1592-1680) and the Orthodox Theory of Art: The Six Famous Practioners.” Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, Aug., 1982. (available online through the Dissertation Abstracts database)
The Forbidden City on Display
See biblliography of exhibition catalogs in Susan Naquin's article, "The Forbidden City Goes Abroad: Qing History and the Foreign Exhibitions of the Palace Museum, 1974-2004," T'oung Pao vol XC nos. 4-5 (2004): 341-97 (JSTOR).
Women and Family
Bray, Francesca. Technology and Gender : Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Eastman, Lloyd E. Family, Fields, and Ancestors : Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History, 1550-1949. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Ko, Dorothy Teachers of the Inner Chambers : Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Mann, Susan. Precious Records : Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Sommer, Matthew H. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Spence, Jonathan D. The Death of Woman Wang. New York: Penguin Books, 1979.
Stockard, Septice E. Daughters of the Canton Delta : Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989.
Religions in Late Imperial China
Berger, Patricia. Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. N8193.C6B47 2003
Chesneaux, Jean, ed. Secret Societies in China in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1971.
Jordan, David K. Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors; the Folk Religion of a Taiwanese Village. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
Martin, Emily and Arthur P. Wolf, ed. Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1974.
Naquin, Susan and Chun-fang Yu, ed. Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Nathan, Andrew J., Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, Judith A. Berling, and David G. Johnson, ed. Popular Culture in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Overmyer, Daniel L. Folk Buddhist Religion : Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Shih, Yu-chung. The Taiping Ideology; Its Sources, Interpretations, and Influences. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967.
Watson, James L. and Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, ed. Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Yang, C. K. Religion in Chinese Society; a Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.
19th-century State and Society
Benedict, Carol. Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Bernhardt, Katherine. Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance : The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840-1950. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992.
Grove, Linda and Christian Daniels, ed. State and Society in China : Japanese Perspectives on Ming-Qing Social and Economic History. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1984.
Ho, Ping-ti. Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
Hsiao, Kung-ch'uan. Rural China; Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1960.
Huang, Philip C. Civil Justice in China : Representation and Practice in the Qing. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Kuhn, Philip A. Soulstealers : The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Mann, Susan. Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987.
Min, Tu-gi, Philip A. Kuhn and Timothy Brook, ed. National Polity and Local Power : The Transformation of Late Imperial China. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1989.
Perdue, Peter C. Exhausting the Earth : State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1987.
Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Making of a Hinterland : State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Sommer, Matthew H. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Imperial-era Elites and Scholarship
Beattie, Hilary J. Land and Lineage in China : A Study of T'ung-Ch'eng County, Anhwei, in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Chang, Chung-li. The Chinese Gentry; Studies on Their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955.
Chang, Chung-li. The Income of the Chinese Gentry. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1962.
Chow, Kai-wing. The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China : Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Elman, Benjamin A. From Philosophy to Philology : Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1984.
Elman, Benjamin A. Classicism, Politics, and Kinship : The Ch'Ang-Chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Esherick, Joseph and Mary B. Rankin, ed. Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Ho, Ping-ti. The Ladder of Success in Imperial China; Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962.
Keenan, Barry C. Imperial China's Last Classical Academies : Social Change in the Lower Yangzi, 1864-1911. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies University of California Berkeley, 1994.
Kuhn, Philip A. Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China, Militarization and Social Structure, 1796-1864. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Meskill, Johanna Margarete Menzel. A Chinese Pioneer Family : The Lins of Wu-Feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Polachek, James M. The Inner Opium War. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University, 1992.
Rankin, Mary B. Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China : Zhejiang Province, 1865-1911. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986.
Wilson, Thomas A. Genealogy of the Way : The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Opium Wars
Chang, Hsin-pao. Commissioner Lin and the Opium War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.
Fay, Peter Ward. The Opium War, 1840-1842 : Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates Ajar. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.
Polachek, James M. The Inner Opium War. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University, 1992.
Wakeman, Frederic E. Strangers at the Gate; Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.
Waley, Arthur. The Opium War through Chinese Eyes. London: Allen & Unwin, 1958.
Wong, J. Y. Deadly Dreams : Opium, Imperialism, and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Foreign Relations, Imperialism, and Trade
Benedict, Carol. Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Eastman, Lloyd E. Throne and Mandarins: China's Search for a Policy During the Sino-French Controversy, 1880-1885. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Fairbank, John King. Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast; the Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1854. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953.
Frodsham, J. D., Sung-t ao Kuo, Hsi-hung Liu and Te-i Chang. The First Chinese Embassy to the West; the Journals of Kuo-Sung-T'ao, Liu Hsi-Hung and Chang Te-Yi. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
Gardella, Robert Paul. Harvesting Mountains : Fujian and the China Tea Trade, 1757-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Li, Lillian M. China's Silk Trade : Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842-1937. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1981.
Hao, Yen-p'ing. The Comprador in Nineteenth Century China: Bridge between East and West. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Hsu, Immanuel Chung-yueh. China's Entrance into the Family of Nations: The Diplomatic Phase, 1858-1880. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960.
Hunt, Michael H. The Making of a Special Relationship : The United States and China to 1914. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
Paine, S. C. M. Imperial Rivals : China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
Schrecker, John E. Imperialism and Chinese Nationalism; Germany in Shantung. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Spence, Jonathan D. To Change China; Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960. Boston: Little Brown, 1969.
Teng, Ssu-yu and John King Fairbank. China's Response to the West; a Documentary Survey, 1839-1923. New York: Atheneum, 1954.
Missionaries
Bays, Daniel H., ed. Christianity in China : From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Cohen, Paul A. China and Christianity; the Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.
Fairbank, John King, ed. The Missionary Enterprise in China and America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Hunter, Septe. The Gospel of Gentility : American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
Spence, Jonathan D. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1985.
Peasant Rebellion and Collective Violence
Chesneaux, Jean and Lucien Bianco. Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China, 1840-1950. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1972.
Cohen, Paul A. History in Three Keys : The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Esherick, Joseph. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Kuhn, Philip A. Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China, Militarization and Social Structure, 1796-1864. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Michael, Franz H. The Taiping Rebellion; History and Documents. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966.
Naquin, Susan. Millenarian Rebellion in China : The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.
Naquin, Susan. Shantung Rebellion : The Wang Lun Uprising of 1774. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
Perry, Elizabeth J. Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1980.
Spence, Jonathan D. God's Chinese Son : The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
Tan, Chester C. The Boxer Catastrophe. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955.
Wagner, Rudolf G. Reenacting the Heavenly Vision : The Role of Religion in the Taiping Rebellion. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies University of California Berkeley, 1982.
Wakeman, Frederic E. and Carolyn Grant, ed. Conflict and Control in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
Weller, Robert P. Resistance, Chaos, and Control in China : Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts, and Tiananmen. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.
Facing the West: The State Response
Chu, Samuel C. and Kwang-Ching Liu, ed. Li Hung-Chang and China's Early Modernization. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1994.
Kwong, Luke S. K. A Mosaic of the Hundred Days : Personalities, Politics, and Ideas of 1898. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1984.
MacKinnon, Stephen R. Power and Politics in Late Imperial China : Yuan Shi-Kai in Beijing and Tianjin, 1901-1908. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Reynolds, Douglas Robertson. China, 1898-1912 : The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1993.
Wright, Mary C. The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism: The T'ung-Chih Restoration, 1862-1874. New York: Atheneum, 1966.
Facing the West: The Intellectual Response
Chang, Hao. Liang Ch'i-Ch'ao and Intellectual Transition in China, 1890-1907. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Chang, Hao. Chinese Intellectuals in Crisis : Search for Order and Meaning (1890-1911). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Howland, Douglas. Borders of Chinese Civilization : Geography and History at Empire's End. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
Hsiao, Kung-ch'uan. A Modern China and a New World : K'ang Yu-Wei, Reformer and Utopian, 1858-1927. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975.
Kwok, Daniel W. Y. Scientism in Chinese Thought, 1900-1950. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1971.
Levenson, Joseph Richmond. Liang Ch'i-Ch'ao and the Mind of Modern China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
Levenson, Joseph Richmond. Confucian China and Its Modern Fate: A Trilogy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
Pusey, James Reeve. China and Charles Darwin. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1983.
Reardon-Anderson, James. The Study of Change : Chemistry in China, 1840-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Schwartz, Benjamin I. In Search of Wealth and Power: Yen Fu and the West. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
Wong, Young-tsu. Search for Modern Nationalism : Zhang Binglin and Revolutionary China, 1869-1936. Hong Kong ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Zarrow, Peter G. Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
1911 Xinhai Revolution
Esherick, Joseph. Reform and Revolution in China : The 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Eto, Shinkichi and Harold Z. Schiffrin, ed. China's Republican Revolution. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994.
Friedman, Edward. Backward toward Revolution; the Chinese Revolutionary Party. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
Liew, K. S. Struggle for Democracy; Sung Chiao-Jen and the 1911 Chinese Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
Price, Don C. Russia and the Roots of the Chinese Revolution, 1896-1911. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Rankin, Mary B. Early Chinese Revolutionaries; Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Rhoads, Edward J. M. China's Republican Revolution : The Case of Kwangtung, 1895-1913. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975.
Schiffrin, Harold Z. Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
Wright, Mary, ed. China in Revolution: The First Phase, 1900-1913. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.
Beijing Art Scene Now
see list of galleries and artist webpages (by no means exhaustive) on Lisa Claypool's home page (click here)
Beijing Architecture in the 21st century
SEE CHINA DESIGN NOW catalogue
architects:
Ai Weiwei
Sir Norman Foster (UK)
Herzog + de Meuron (Switzerland)
Jia Kun
Rem Koolhaas
(Netherlands)
Ma Qingyun
MAD Studio (Ma Yansong)
PTW Architects (Australia)
Turenscape
Yung Ho Chang
Zhu Pei