Further Reading: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Table of Contents (click on subject heading to be directed to relevant bibliography)

Animal Science (Zoology) under construction

Architecture and Material Culture in China

Art and History of Ming-QIng China (1368-1911), introductory texts

Bird science (ornithology)

Bodies

Botany/Plant science under construction

Cartography/Maps

Export Painting

Figure Painting (China and elsewhere)

Garden Architecture (China and Europe)

Imperial Print Culture (and comparative sources)

see also Guiseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining)

Insect Science (entomology) under construction

Manchu Rule and Ethnicity

Modernisms (China)

Museums under construction

Nature under construction

Orientalism and the arts

Republican-era painting

Print culture in Republican-era China

Qing Court Painting

Qing Imperial Robes and Textiles

Science and the Arts

Science in East Asia

Vision and Visuality

Individual Artists (listed in alphabetical order by the artist's surname)


Guiseppe Castiglione
(see "Imperial Print Culture")
Thomas Daniell
Fu Baoshi

Gao Jianfu

Animal science (zoology)

Egmond, Florike. 2017. Eye for detail: images of plants and animals in art and science, 1500-1630. London: Reaktion Books. (QH 46.5 E46 2017)

Architecture and Material Culture in China

See 2004 bibliography on topic, Princeton University (click here for PDF)

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.

Bird Science

ELECTRONIC SOURCES
birdscience.net bibliography

Smithsonian Institution bibliography

Search the Biodiversity library for “bird” and “China.” Many of the books dating before 1949 listed below can be found in this library.

BOOKS
Andrews, Roy Chapman, Outram Bangs, Harry R. Caldwell, Edmund Heller. “The birds of the American Museum of Natural History's Asiatic Zoological Expedition of 1916-1917.” Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 44, no. 20 (1921): 575-626.

Bangs, Outram. Birds of western China obtained by the Kelley-Roosevelts expedition. Chicago, 1932.

Caldwell, Harry R. South China birds. Shanghai: H.M. Vanderburgh, 1931.

Couling, Samuel. Encyclopedia Sinica. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1917. [available online through the library catalogue]

David, Armand. Les oiseaux de la Chine. 2 vols (vol. 1 texte; vol. 2 atlas). Paris: G. Masson, 1877.

Gray, George Robert. William Swainson, designer and lithographer. A fasciculus of the birds of China. London:  Taylor and Francis, 1871.

Kellogg, Claude R. - Hubbart, Hugh W. - Wilder, George Durand, - Yuan, Lee Hsiang. Fifty common birds of China. n.p., 192-?

Kolthoff, Kjell. Studies on birds in the Chinese provinces of Kiangsu and Anhwei 1921-22. Götebord: Elanders boktr., 1932.

La Touche, John David Digues de. A handbook of the birds of eastern China. Vols. 1 & 2. London: Taylor and Francis, 1925-1934.

Liu Yang, Edward Capon. Fenfang de kongjian: Guangdong sheng bowuguan cang Zhongguo Ming-Qing huaniao hua 芬芳的空間:廣東省博物館藏中國明清花鳥畫 [Fragrant Space: Chinese Flower and Bird Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties from the Guangdong Provincial Museum]. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000. [English and Chinese, ILL]

Moffett, Lacy I. Common birds of the Yangtze delta. Shanghai, 1912.

Nemerov, Alexander. “A World Too Much:  Democracy and Natural History in the Work of Godman and Audubon.” In Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Ed.Amy Meyers, 356-75. Yale University Press, 2011. [Rutherford reserves].

Roberts, Jennifer. Transporting Visions: the Movement of Images in Early America. Berkeley: University of Calfornia Press, 2014. [Rutherford reserves]

Shaw, Tsen-Hwang. “The Birds of Hopei Province.” Zoological Sinica, Series B: The Vertebrates of China Vol. 15, Fasc. 1 Peiping: Fan Memorial Institute of Biology and Yu Lien Press, 1936.

Sowerby, Arhur de Carle. Birds recorded from or known to occur in Shanghai area. Chang-hai: Université L’Aurore, 1943.

Swinhoe, Robert. A revised catalogue of the birds of China and its islands, with descriptions of new species, references to former notes, and occasional remarks. London, 1871.

Wade, Henling Thomas. With boat and gun in the Yangtze valley. With special chapters by valued contributors. 2d ed. Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury, 1910. PDF

Wang Shixiang王世襄. Beijing ge shao 北京鴿哨 [Beijing pigeon whistles]. Shenyang: Liaoning jiaoyu chubanshe, 2000. [Chinese and English, ILL]

Wheye, Darryl, and Donald Kennedy. Humans, Nature, and Birds: Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. [Rutherford reserves]

Wilkinson, Edward S. Shanghai birds; study of bird life in Shanghai and the surrounding districts. Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald Limited, 1929.

Bodies (see also Figure Painting)

BODIES AND REPRESENTATION

Articles

Asen, Daniel. “‘Manchu Anatomy’: Anatomical Knowledge and the Jesuits in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China.” History of Medicine 22, no. 1 (2009): 23-44.

Chen, Hiu-Hung. “The Human Body as a Universe: Understanding Heaven by Visualization and Sensibility in Jesuit Cartography in China.” Catholic Historical Review 93, no. 3 (2007): 517-552.

Chong, Gladys Pak Lei. “Chinese Bodies that Matter: The Search for Masculinity and Femininity.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 30, no. 3 (2013): 242-266.

Despeux, Catherine. “Visual representations of the body in Chinese medical and Daoist texts from the Song to the Qing period (tenth to nineteenth century).” Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 1, no. 1 (2005): 10-52.

Furth, Charlotte. “Androgynous Males and Deficient Females: Biology and Gender Boundaries in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China.” Late Imperial China 9, no. 2 (1988): 1-31.

---. “Blood, Body and Gender: Medical Images of the Female Condition in China 1600-1850.” Chinese Science 7 (1986): 43-66.

Gao, Yunxiang. “Sex, Sports, and China's National Crisis, 1931-1945: The "Athletic Movie Star" Li Lili (1915-2005).” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 22, no. 1 (2010): 96-161.

Gilman, Sander L. ““Stand Up Straight”: Notes Toward a History of Posture.” Journal of Medical Humanities 35, no. 1 (2014): 57-83.

Huang, Yingying. “Against the Western "Barbarian": Narrating Bodily Resistance in Early Nineteenth-Century China.” Tamkang Review 45, no. 2 (2015): 89-110.

Qi, An. “To dress or not to dress: body representations of the ethnic minorities on China's southwestern frontiers.” Inner Asia 13, no. 1 (2011): 183-203.

Wang, Y. Yvon. “Whorish Representation: Pornography, Media, and Modernity in Fin-de-siecle Beijing.” Modern China 40, no. 4 (2014): 351-392.

Wu, Guanda. "Mustache as Resistance: Representation and Reception of Mei Lanfang’s Masculinity." TDR: The Drama Review, no. 2 (2016): 122-138.1

Wu, Yi-Li. “Body, Gender, and Disease: The Female Breast in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine.” Late Imperial China 32, no. 1 (2011): 83-128.

Xu, Jian. “Retrieving the Working Body in Modern Chinese Fiction: The Question of the Ethical in Representation.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 16, no. 1 (2004): 115-152.

Zamperini, Paola. “On Their Dress They Wore a Body: Fashion and Identity in Late Qing Shanghai.” East Asia Cultures Critique 11, no. 2 (2003): 301-330.

Books

Ahmed, Jamilah, and Helen Thomas, eds. Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003. (This is not looking specifically at Chinese bodies, but is useful in understanding the ways in which ethnography is practiced in relation to the body).

Barlow, Tani E., and Angela Zito. Body, Subject & Power in China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

---. “Theorizing woman: Funü, Guojia, Jiating (Chinese women, Chinese State, Chinese Family).” In Feminism and History, Edited by Joan Wallach Scott, 48-78. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 

Berger, Patricia Ann. Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. (This might be useful for a discussion of pictorial representation of imperial bodies)

Chiang, Sing-chen Lydia. Collecting the Self: Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Choy, Howard Y. F., ed. Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and the Body in Modern China. Leiden: Brill, 2016.

Gao, Yunxiang. Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making During China’s National Crisis, 1931-45. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013.

Hanscom, Christopher P., and Dennis Washburn, eds. The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016.

Heinrich, Ari Larissa. The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.

---, and Fran Martin, eds. Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. (See chapters in section one: “Thresholds of Modernity”).

Hofer, Theresia, ed. Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2014.

Kuriyama, Shigehisa. The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine. New York: Zone Books, 1999.

Pang, Laikwan. The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.

Pickowicz, Paul G., Kuiyi Shen, and Yingjin Zhang, eds. Liangyou: Kaleidoscopic Modernity and the Shanghai Global Metropolis, 1926-1945. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

Rogaski, Ruth. Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Schillinger, Nicolas. The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Art of Governing Soldiers. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. 

Schipper, Kristopher Marinus. The Taoist Body. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Vinograd, Richard. Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge Univerisity Press, 1992.

Wang, Ping. Aching For Beauty: Footbinding in China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Wu, Yi-li. Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

Zito, Angela. Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in Eighteenth-Century China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Botany

Bynum, Helen. 2017. Botanical sketchbooks. New York: Thames & Hudson.

Ching, May Bo. “Picturing knowledge: Chinese brushwork illustrations of Western natural history in a late Qing periodical, 1907-1911.” Journal of Modern Chinese History 1, no. 1 (August 2007): 31-51.

Egmond, Florike. 2017. Eye for detail: images of plants and animals in art and science, 1500-1630. London: Reaktion Books. (QH 46.5 E46 2017)

Fan, Fa-ti. British Naturalists in Qing China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Cartography

Alpers, Svetlana. The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Black, Jeremy. Maps and Politics. London: Reaktion Books, 1997.

Bray, Francesca, et al., eds. Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007.

Casey, Edward. Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002

———. Earth-Mapping: Artists Reshaping Landscape. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005

Clunas, Craig. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China. London: Reaktion Books, 1997.

De Weerdt, Hilde. “Maps and Memory: Readings of Cartography in Twelfth- and Thirteenth- Century Song China.” Imago Mundi: International Journal for the History of Cartography 61, no. 2 (2009): 145-167.

———. “The Cultural Logics of Map Reading: Text, Time, and Space in Printed Maps of the Song Empire.” In Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print: China, 900-1400, edited by Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt, 239-70. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011.

Harley, J. B. “The Map and the Development of the History of Cartography.” In The History of Cartography 1 (1987): 1-42.

Harley, J. B. “Maps, Knowledge, and Power.” In The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments, ed. Denis Cosgrove and Stephen Daniels, 277-312. Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, 9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Reprinted in New Nature of Maps, 51-81.

Harley, J. B. The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography, edited by Paul Laxton, 33-81. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Harley, J. B., and David Woodward. “Why Cartography Needs its History.” The American Cartographer 16 (1989): 5-15.

Hotstetler, Laura. Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Lin, Fan. "Cartographic Empire: Production and circulation of maps and mapmaking knowledge in the Song dynasty (960-1279)." Ph.D. diss, McGill University, 2014.

Smith, Richard. Chinese Maps: Images of All under Heaven. Hong Kong and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

———. Mapping China and Managing the World: Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times. Oxon: Routledge, 2013

Wilson, Bronwen. The World in Venice: Print, the City and Early Modern Identity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Yee, Cordell. "Reinterpreting traditional Chinese geographical maps." In The HIstory of Cartography. Ed. J.B. Harley, and Yee, vol. 3: 35-67. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Yee, Cordell, and John Henderson. “Cartography in China.” In Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies, in History of Cartography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Export Painting

Block, Michael. "The Importance of the China trade."

Bowen, Huw. British Politics And The East India Company, 1776-1773  [e-book]. 1986. Available from: Center for Research Libraries, Ipswich, MA.

Claypool, Lisa. "Beggars, Black Bears, and Butterflies." See section on butterflies.

Clunas, Craig. Chinese export watercolours. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984.

Conner, Patrick. The China trade, 1600-1860. Brighton: Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, 1986.

____. "The enigma of Spoilum and the origins of China trade portraiture." Magazine antiques. 153, no. 3 (Mar. 1998).

_____. The hongs of Canton : western merchants in south China 1700-1900, as seen in Chinese export paintings. London: English Art Books, 2009.

_____. "George Chinnery and his contemporaries on the China coast." Arts of Asia 23 (May 1993): 66-81.

_____. Paintings of the China trade: the Sze Yuan Tang Collection of historic paintings. Hong Kong: Maritime Museum, 2013.

Cranmer-Byng, J. L. An embassy to China; being the journal kept by Lord Macartney during his embassy to the Emperor Chʻien-lung, 1793-1794. London, Toronto: Longmans, 1962.

Crossman, Carl L. A catalogue of Chinese export paintings, furniture, silver, and other objects, 1785 to 1865. Slaem: Peabody Museum, 1970.

_____. The China trade; export paintings, furniture, silver & other objects. Princeton: Pyne Press, 1972.

_____. The decorative arts of the China trade: paintings, furnishings and exotic curiosities. Woodbridge : Antique Collectors' Club, 2004.

Daniell, Thomas. A picturesque voyage to India by the way of China. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Or’me, Paternoster-Row, 1810

Farris, Johnathan. Enclave to urbanity : canton, foreigners, and architecture from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016.

____. "Treaty ports of China." In Port cities: dynamic landscapes and global networks. Ed. Carola Hein. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2011.

Haddad, John. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in US Culture, 1776-1876. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Hong Kong Museum of Art, ed. Late Qing China Trade Paintings. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1988.

_____. Views of the Pearl River Delta: Macau, Canton, and Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Urban Council of Hong Kong, 1996.

_____. Artistic Inclusion of the East and West: Apprentice to Master. Hong Kong: Leisure and Cultural Services Department, 2011.

Howard, David S. A tale of three cities: Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong. London: Sotheby's, 1997.

Koon, Yeewan. See the assigned reading in syllabus.

Lange, Amanda F. Chinese export art at Historic Deerfield. Easthampton: Historic Deerfield, Inc., 2005.

Milam, Jennifer. "Toying with China: Cosmopolitanism and Chinoiserie in Russian Garden Design and Building Projects under Catherine the Great." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 25, no. 1 (2012): 115-138.

Pierson, Stacey. "The Movement of Chinese Ceramics: Appropriation in Global History." Journal of World History 23, no 1 (March 2012): 9-39.

Sargent, William. Treasures of Chinese export porcelain from the Peabody Essex Museum. Salem, MA: Peabody Esssex, 2012.

Sloboda, Stacey. Chinoiserie: commerce and critical ornament in eighteenth-century Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014.

Thomas, Greg. "Yuanmingyuan/Versaille: Intercultural Interactions between Chinese and European Palace Cultures." Art History 32. no. 1 (2009): 115-43

Van Dyke, Paul Arthur. The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise On the China Coast, 1700-1845. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007. 

Van Dyke, Paul, and Maria Mak. Images of the Canton factories 1760-1822: Reading history in art. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2015.


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.

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.

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.

Garden Architecture

Bibliography compiled by Dr. Lauren Nemroff, 2004.

An, Huaiqi. Zhongguo yuanlin yishu [The Art of Chinese Gardens]. Shanghai: Shanghai kexue jishu chubanshe, 1986.

Barnhart, Richard. Peach Blossom Spring: Gardens and Flowers in Chinese Painting. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.

Cao Xueqin. The Story of the Stone. Trans. David Hawkes and John Minford, 5 vols. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1973.

Chen Congzhou. Suzhou yuanlin [Suzhou Gardens]. Shanghai: Tongji caxue jiaocaike, 1956. Japanese translation, Tokyo, 1982.

———. Shuo yuan [On Gardens]. Beijing: Shumu wenxian chubanshe, 1984. Japanese edition translation, Sato Akira and Kawahara Taketoshi. Tokyo: Toho Soen Kenkyu kai, 1986). Bilingual edition, trans. Chen Xiongshan et al. Shanghai: Tongji University Press, 1984.

Chen, Lixian. Art and Architecture In Suzhou Gardens. Nanjing: Yilin Press, 1992

———. Zhongguo mingyuan. Hong Kong: Commercial Press Ltd., 1990.

Clunas, Craig. Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Early Modern China. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996.

Clunas, Craig. "Ideal and Reality in the Ming Garden." In The Authentic Garden. Eds. Erik de Jong and Leslie Tjon Sie Fat. Amsterdam: Clusius Foundation, 1991. This volume contains several articles on classical Chinese gardens delivered at an international symposium.

Currie, Christopher K. "Fishponds as Garden Features, c.1550–1750." Journal of the Garden History Society, XVIII (1990): 22–46.

Edwards, Richard. The Art of Wen Cheng-ming (1470–1559.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1976.See esp. pp. 175–178, cat. no. LI.

Fung, Stanislaus. "Here and There in the Yuan Ye." Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes. 19, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 36–45.

———, and John Makeham. "Chinese Gardens: In honor of Professor Chen Congzhou of Shanghai," special issue of Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. 18/3 (Autumn 1998). In addition to the six articles on Chinese gardens, this special volume also includes a lengthy bibliography of secondary sources in Chinese, Japanese and English compiled by Stanislaus Fung.

———, and Mark Jackson. "Four Key Terms in the History of Chinese Gardens." in Proceedings of the International Conference on Chinese Architectural History. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995.

———. "Word and Garden in Chinese Essays on Gardens of the Ming Dynasty: Notes on Matters of Approach." Interfaces: Image, Texte, Language 11–12 (June 1997): 77–90.

Graham, Dorothy. Chinese Gardens: Gardens of the Contemporary Scene, an Account of their Design and Symbolism. New York, 1938.

Handlin-Smith, Joanna. "Gardens in Ch'i Pao-chia's Social World: Wealth and Values in Late-Ming Kiangnan." Journal of Asian Studies 51, no. 1 (February 1992): 55–81.

Harrist, Robert E. "Site Names and their Meaning in the Garden of Solitary Enjoyment." Journal of Garden History XIII (1993): 199–212.

Hay, John A. Kernels of Energy Bones of Earth: the Rock in Chinese Art. New York: China Institute in America, 1985.

———. "Structure and Aesthetic Criteria in Chinese Rocks and Art." Res XIII (Spring 1987): 6–22.

Ji Cheng. The Craft of Gardens [Yuan ye]. Tr.. Alison Hardie, photographs by Zhong Ming, with a foreward by Maggie Keswick. New Haven and London: Yale University Press,1988.

Johnston, R. Stewart. Scholar Gardens of China: A Study and Analysis of the Spatial Design of the Chinese Private Garden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Keswick, Maggie. The Chinese Garden. 2nd edition. New York: St. Martins Press, 1986.

Laing, Ellen Johnston. "Qiu Ying's Depiction of Sima Guang's Duluo [sic] Yuan and the View from the Chinese Garden." Oriental Art n.s., XXXIII (1987): 375–80.

Laing, Ellen Johnston. "Ch'iu Ying's Two Garden Paintings Belonging to the Chion-in Kyoto." In Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Chinese Art History: Painting and Calligraphy. Vol. 2, pp. 375-80. Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1992.

Liu, Dunzhen. Suzhou gudai jianzhu shi [A History of Suzhou Architecture] Beijing: Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe, 1984.

———. Suzhou gudian yuanlin [Classical Gardens of Suzhou]. Beijing: Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe, 1979.

———. "The Traditional Gardens of Suzhou [Suzhou gudian yuanlin]." an abridged translation by Frances Wood. Garden History, Journal of the Garden History Society X/2 (1982): 108–41.

McDermott, Joseph P. review of Ji Cheng, The Craft of Gardens, trans. Alison Hardie. Garden History, Journal of the Garden History Society XVIII/I (1990): 70–74.

Morris, Edwin T. The Gardens of China: Art, Architecture and Meanings. New York: Charles Scribner and Sons,1984.

Mowry, Robert D., ed. World Within Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholar's Rocks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.

Munakata, Kiyohiko. "Mysterious Heavens and Chinese Classical Gardens." Res XV (1988): 61–88.

Murck, Alfreda and Wen Fong. "A Chinese Garden Court." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 38, no. 3 (Winter 1980–81), reprinted 1985.

Nance, F.R. Soochow, The Garden City. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh Ltd, 1936.

Pan, Guxi, ed. Zhongguo meishu quanji, jianzhu yishu bian, san, yanlin jianzhu. Beijing: Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe, 1988.

Plaks, Andrew H. Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.

Ruitenbeek, Klaas. Carpentry and Building in Late Imperial China: A Study of the Fifteenth-century Carpenter's Manual, Lu Ban jing. Leiden, New York and Cologne: Sinica Leidensia,1993.

Schafer, Edward H. "Cosmos in Miniature: The Tradition of the Chinese Garden." Landscape 12, no. 3 (Spring 1963): 24–26.

Siren, Osvald. Gardens of China. New York: The Ronald Press Co., 1949.

Stein, Rolf A. The World in Miniature: Container Gardens and Dwellings in Far Eastern Religious Thought. Trans. Phyllis Brooks. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990.

Stuart, Jan. "Ming Dynasty Gardens Reconstructed in Words and Images." Journal of Garden History 10, no. 3 (1990): 162–172.

———. "A Scholar's Garden in Ming China: Dream and Reality." Asian Art 3, no. 4 (Fall 1990): 31–52.

Suzhou Institute of Landscape Architectural Design. Suzhou Gardens [Suzhou Yuanlin]. Beijing: Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe, 1999.

Tsao, Lin-ti. Ku-su yuan-lin yu Chung-kuo wen-hua. Taipei: Wan-chuan-lou t'u-shu yu-hsien kung-ssu, 1993.

Watt, James C.Y. and Chu-tsing Li eds. The Chinese Scholar's Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period (exhibition catalogue) New York: Asia Society, 1987.

Whitfield, Roderick. In Pursuit of Antiquity: Chinese Paintings of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse. Rutland, VT: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1969.,see esp. pp. 66–75, cat. no.3.

Wilson, Marc F. and Kwan S. Wong. Friends of Wen Cheng-ming: A View from the Crawford Collection (exhibition catalogue). New York: China House Gallery: 1974.

Yun, Qiao ed. Classical Chinese Gardens. Hong Kong and Beijing: Joint Publishing Company Ltd., 1982.

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.

Jang, 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” (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” (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.

Insect Science (Entomology)

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.

Modernism

Histories of modern art in China:

Andrews, Julia F. "Traditional Chinese Painting in an Age of Revolution, 1911-1937." In Chinese Painting and the Twentieth Century: Creative in the Aftermath of Tradition, 579-595. Hangzhou: Zhejiang Art Press, 1997.

Andrews, Julia, and Kuiyi Shen. A century in crisis: modernity and tradition in the art of twentieth-century China. New York: Guggenheim Museums, 1998.

Andrews, Julia, ed. Between the thunder and the rain: Chinese painting from the Opium War to the Cultural Revolution, 1940-1979. San Francisco, CA : Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and Echo Rock Ventures, 2000.

Brown, Claudia and Chou Ju-hsi. Transcending Turmoil: Painting at the close of China's empire, 1796-1911. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.

Clark, John ed. Modernity in Asian Art. The University of Sydney East Asian Series, no. 7. Broadway, New South Wales: Wild Peony, 1993.

Clark, John. "Problems of Modernity in Chinese Painting." Oriental Art n.s. 32, no. 3 (1986): 270-283.
Clark, John. Modern Asian Art. Sydney: Craftsman House and Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998.

Clarke, David. "Exile from Tradition: Chinese and Western Traits in the Art of Lin Fengmian." Oriental Art 39, no. 4 (Winter 1993/94): 22-29.

Clarke, David. Modern Chinese Art. NY/HK: Oxford UP, 2000.

Clunas, Craig. "Chinese Art and Chinese Artists in France, 1924-25." Arts Asiatiques 44 (1989): 100-106.
Ellsworth, R. H. Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 1800-1950. New York, 1986-88.

Fong, Wen C. Between Two Cultures: Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001.

Hironobu, Kohara. "The Reform Movement in Chinese Painting of the Early 20th Century." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Sinology, 449-64. Taipei: Academica Sinica, 1981.

Li, Chu-tsing. Trends in Modern Chinese Painting: The CA Drenowatz Collection. Ascona, Switzerland, 1979.

Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001.

Sullivan, Michael. Art and artists of twentieth-century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Wong, Aida Yuen. Parting the Mists: Discovering Japan and the Rise of National-style Painting in China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006.

Museums

Nature

 

Bennett, Jane. 2012. Vibrant matter [electronic resource]: a political ecology of things. Duke: Duke University Press.

Buttimer, Anne, Stanley D. Brunn and Ute Wardenga, eds. 1999. Text and Image: Social Construction of Regional Knowledges. Leipzig: Insitut für Länderkunde.

Chatterjee, Anjan. 2010. “Disembodying Cognition.” Language and Cognition 2, no. 1: 79-116.

Halley, Peter. 1983. "Nature and culture." Arts magazine (Sept):

Harvey, Peter. 1990. "Between time and space: Reflections on the geographical imagination." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 80, no. 3 (Sept): 418-436.

Jardine, Nicholas, et. al., eds. 1996. Cultures of natural history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Morton, Timothy. 2007. Ecology without nature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Nagel, Thomas. 1974. "What is it like to be a bat?" Philosophical review 83, no. 4 (October): 435-450.

Robertson, George. 1996. FutureNatural: nature, science, culture. New York: Routledge.

Thompson, Nato, ed. 2008. Experimental geography. Brooklyn: Melville House.

Orientalism and the arts

Celik, Zeynep. "Colonialism, Orientalism, and the Canon." The Art Bulletin 78, no. 2 (June 1996): 202-5.

Edwards, H., ed. Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930. 2000.

Kabbani, Rana. Europe Myths of Orient. Bloomington, Ind., 1986.

MacKenzie, John. Orientalism: History, Theory, and the Arts. Manchester, 1995, chapter 3.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979.

Steegmuller, Francis. Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour. Boston, 1972.

Sweetman, John. The Oriental Obsession. Cambridge and New York, 1988.

Thornton, Lynne. The Orientalists : Painter-Travellers, 1828-1908. Paris, 1983.

_____. Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting. Paris, 1985.

Willimas, Caroline. "Jean Lèon Gérôme: A Case Study of an Orientalist Painter." In Fantasy or Ethnography? Irony and Collusion in Subaltern Representation. Eds. S. Webber and M. Lynd, 117-48. (Papers in Comparative Studies 8, 1993-94).

Republican-era Painting

Andrews, Julia F. "Traditional Chinese Painting in an Age of Revolution, 1911-1937." In Chinese Painting and the Twentieth Century: Creative in the Aftermath of Tradition, pp. 579-595. Hangzhou: Zhejiang Art Press, 1997.

Andrews, Julia, ed. Between the thunder and the rain : Chinese painting from the Opium War to the Cultural Revolution, 1940-1979. San Francisco, CA : Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and Echo Rock Ventures, 2000.

Andrews, Julia, and Kuiyi Shen. A century in crisis : modernity and tradition in the art of twentieth-century China. New York : Guggenheim Museum : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

_____. "Traditionalism as a Modern Stance: The Chinese Women's Calligraphy and Painting Society." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 11, 1 (Spring 1999): 1-30.

The Art of the Gao Brothers of the Lingnan School. Guangdong Painting Series 2. Hong Kong: Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995.

The Art of Xu Beihong. Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1988.

Chen, Jack. "Modern Chinese Paintings." Studio no. 128 (August, 1944), pp. 50-54.

Clark, John. Modern Asian Art. Sydney: Craftsman House and Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998.

__________, ed. Modernity in Asian Art: The University of Sydney East Asian Series, no. 7. Broadway, New South Wales: Wild Peony, 1993.

__________. "Problems of Modernity in Chinese Painting." Oriental Art, new series, vol. 32, no. 3 (1986): 270-283.

Clarke, David. "Exile from Tradition: Chinese and Western Traits in the Art of Lin Fengmian." Oriental Art, vol. 39, no. 4 (Winter 1993/94), pp. 22-29.

Clarke, David. Modern Chinese Art. NY/HK: Oxford UP, 2000.

Clunas, Craig. "Chinese Art and Chinese Artists in France, 1924-25." Arts Asiatiques 44 (1989): 100-106.

Croizier, Ralph. Art and Revolution in Modern China: The Lingnan (Cantonese) School of Painting, 1906-1951. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988.

_____. "Post-Impressionists in Pre-War Shanghai: The Juelanshe (Storm Society) and the Fate of Modernism in Republican China." In Modernity in Asian Art. Broadway. Ed. John Clark, 135-54. NSW, Australia : Wild Peony, 1993.

Fong, Wen C. Between Two Cultures: Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001).

Fu, Shen. "Huang Binhong's Shanghai Period Landscape Paintings and His Late Floral Works." Orientations, vol. 18, no. 9 (September 1987): 66-78.

Hironobu, Kohara. "The Reform Movement in Chinese Painting of the Early 20th Century." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Sinology. Taipei: Academica Sinica, 1981, 449- 64.

Huang Yongyu and His Paintings. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1988.

Kuo, Jason C. Innovation within Tradition: The Painting of Huang Pin-hung. Hong Kong: Hanart Gallery; and Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College, 1989.

Kuo, Jason C. Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's late work. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.

Laing, Ellen Johnston. An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists. Eugene: University of Oregon Asian Studies Program, Publication no. 6, 1984.

Li, Chu-tsing. Trends in Modern Chinese Painting: The CA Drenowatz Collection. Ascona, Switzerland, 1979 (available through JSTOR).

MacRitchie, Lewis. "Report on Wartime Painting in China." Pacific Art Review, vol. 4 (1945-1946): 47-55.

Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001.

Silbergeld, Jerome. Mind Landscapes: The Paintings of C.C. Wang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987.

Sullivan, Michael. Art and artists of twentieth-century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Sullivan, Michael. "Recollections of Art and Artists in Wartime Chengdu." The Register of the Spencer Museum of Art, vol. 6, no. 3 (1986), pp. 6-19.

Wong, Aida Yuen. Parting the Mists: Discovering Japan and the Rise of National-style Painting in China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006.

Wu Guanzhong: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Painter. London: British Museum Press, 1992.

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 [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  

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Weiner, Annette B. and Jane Schneider, eds. Cloth and Human Experience. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Science and the Arts


Bacci, Francesca, ed. 2011. Art and the Senses. London and New York: Oxford UP.

Baigrie, Brian, ed. 1996. Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Bann, Stephen. 1994. "The map as index of the 'real.'" Imago Mundi 46: 9-18.

Berger, Thomas. 1991. “Why Look at Animals?” In About Looking, 3-28. New York: Vintage International.

Buckland, Rosina. 2012. Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan. Leiden: Brill.

Chen, Hui-hung. 2007. “The Human Body as a Universe: Understanding Heaven by Visualization and Sensibility in Jesuit Cartography in China.” Catholic Historical Review 93, no. 3 (July): 517-552.

_____. 2009. “Chinese Perception of European Perspective: A Jesuit Case in the Seventeenth Century.” The Seventeenth Century. 24, no. 1 (April): 97-128.

Ching, May Bo. 2007. “Picturing Knowledge: Chinese Brush-work Illustrations of Western Knowledge in a Late Qing Periodical, 1907-1911.” The Journal of Modern Chinese History. 1, no. 1: 31-51. 

Clarke, Bruce and Linda Henderson. 2002. From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art and Literature. Stanford: Stanford UP.

Clarke, David. 2008. “Revolutions in Vision: Chinese Art and the Experience of Modernity.” In The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture. Ed. Kam Louie, 272-296. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Claypool, Lisa, ed. 2012. China’s Imperial Modern: The Painter’s Craft. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Museums.

Claypool, Lisa.  2011. “Ways of Seeing the Nation: Chinese Painting in the National Essence Journal (1905-1911) and Exhibition Culture.” positions: east asia cultures critique. 19, no. 1 (Spring): 52-85.

_____. 2005. “Zhang Jian and China’s First Museum.” The Journal of Asian Studies. 64, no. 3 (August): 567-604.

_____. 2011. “Architectonic Ink: Zheng Chongbin in Conversation with Lisa Claypool.” Yishu: The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 10, no. 4 (July): 41-53.

_____. 2013. “Sites of Visual Modernity: Perceptions of Japanese Exhibitions in Late Qing China.” The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art. Ed. Joshua Fogel, 154-80. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

_____. 2014. “Habitat Dioramas: The Animal Paintings of Liu Kuiling in Republican-era Tianjin.” Archives of Asian Art 64, no. 2 (November): 163-188.

_____. 2015a. “Beggars, Black Bears, and Butterflies: The Scientific Gaze and Ink Painting in Modern China.” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 15  (May): 189-237.

_____. 2015b. “Picturing Science in Modern China.” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review no. 15 (March): open-access exhibition.

Clunas, Craig. 1997. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China. Princeton UP. 

Corsi, Elisabetta. 2002. “Envisioning Perspective: Nian Xiyao (1671-1738)’s Rendering of Western Perspective in the Prologues to “The Science of Vision.” In A Life Journey to the East: Sinological Studies in Memory of Giuliano Certuccioli (1923-2001). Eds. Antonino Forte and Federico Masini, 201-244. Kyoto: Scuola. 

Dal Lago, Francesca. 2009. “Realism as a Tool of National Modernisation in the Reformist Discourse of Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century China.” In Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, and Convergence. Ed. Jaynie Anderson, 852-55. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press.

Daston, Lorraine, and Peter Galison. 2007. Objectivity. New York: Zone Books.

Ding, Ning and Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, eds. 2015. Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West. Los Angeles: The Getty.

Driver, Felix. 2003. “On geography as a visual discipline.” Antipode 35, no. 2 (March): 227-31.

Eisenman, Stephen F. 2013. The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights. London: Reaktion Books.

Freedberg, David. 2003. The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

_____. 2014. “Feelings on Faces: From Physiognomics to Neuroscience.” In Rethinking Emotion: Interiority and Exteriority in Premodern, Modern, and Contemporary Thought. Eds.Rüdiger Campe and Julia Weber, 289-324. Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies, Volume 15. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

Fukuoka, Maki. 2012. The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Ninteenth-Century Japan. Stanford: Stanford UP.

Galison, Peter, and Caroline Jones, eds. 1998. Picturing Science, Producing Art. New York: Routledge.

Gowlland, Geoffrey. 2012. “Learning Craft Skills in China: Apprenticeship and Social Capital in an Artisan Community of Practice.” Anthropology & Education Quarterly 43, no. 4: 358-71.

Grasseni, Cristina. 2007. Skilled Vision: Between Apprenticeship and Standards. New York, Oxford:Berghahn.

Guangdong bowuguan, et. al., eds. 2003. Gudao xifeng: Gao Jianfu, Liu Kuiling, Tao Lengyue: Ershi shiji zaoqi Zhongguo huajia ronghe Zhong Xi de qiusuo 古道西風:高劍父,劉奎齡,陶冷月:二十世紀早期中國畫家融合中西的求索 [The East meeting the West: Gao Jianfu, Liu Kuiling, Tao Lengyue]. Nanning: Guangxi meishu chubanshe.

Hacking, Ian. 1983. “What is Scientific Realism?” In Representing and Intervening, 21-32. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP.
Hamilton, James. 2001. Fields of Influence: Conjunctions of Artists and Scientists, 1815-1860. Birmingham: Birmingham University Press.
Hay, Jonathan. 1999. “Culture, Ethnicity, and Empire in the Work of Two Eighteenth-Century ‘Eccentric’ Artists.” Res: Anthropolgy and Aesthetics vol. 35 (Spring): 201-223. 

Heinrich, Larissa. 2008. The afterlife of images: translating the pathological body between China and the West. Durham: Duke UP.

Ho, Wai-kam, ed. 1992. The Century of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang, 1555-1636. 2 Vols. Seattle, London: University of Washington Press in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Hostetler, Laura. 2006. The Art of Ethnography: A Chinese “Miao Album.” Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Ingold, Tim. 1995. “Epilogue: Technology, language, intelligence: A reconsideration of these basic concepts.” In Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution. Eds. Ingold, Kathleen Gibson, 449-72. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

_____. 2011. Redrawing Anthropology: Materials, Movements, Lines. Farnham: Ashgate.

Kemp, Martin. 1990. The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat. New Haven and London: Yale UP.

_____. 2006. Seen/Unseen: Art and Science, and Intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble Telescope. London, New York: Oxford UP.

Kessler, Elizabeth. 2012. Picturing the Cosmos: Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Kleutghen, Kristina. 2015. Imperial Illusions: Crossing pictorial boundaries in the Qing palaces. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 
_____. 2016. “Ethnicity, empire, and ‘Europe;’ Jesuit art in China during the papacy of Benedict XIV.” In Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, science, and spirituality​. Eds. Rebecca Messbarger, et. al., 419-38. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 
Kobayashi Hiromitsu 小林宏光. 1995. Chügoku no hanga 中国の版画 (Chinese Woodblock Illustrations from the Tang through the Qing Dynasty). Tokyo: Toshindo. 

Koon, Yeewan. 2014.  A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and the Politics of Painting in Early Nineteenth-Century Guangdong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP.

Lai Yu-chih 賴毓芝. 2011a. “Cong Dule dao Qinggong: Yi xiniu wei zhongxin de quanqiu shi guancha” 從杜勒到清宮:以犀牛為中心的全球史觀察 (From Dürer to the Qing court: An examination of global history through [illustrations of] the rhinocerous). Gugong wenwu yuekan. No. 344 (November): 68-81.

_____. 2011b. “Tuxiang, zhishi yu diguo: Qinggong de shihuoji tuhui” 圖像、知識與帝國:清宮的食火雞圖繪 (Images, Knowledge, and Empire: Depicting Cassowaries in the Qing Court). Gugong xuexu jikan. 29, no. 2 (December): 1-75.

_____.  2012. “Tuxiang diguo: Qianlong chao ‘Zhigongtu’ de zhizuo yu didu chengxian” 圖像帝國:乾隆朝《職貢圖》的製作與帝都呈現 (Picturing the empire: The Qianlong court’s production of “Tribute paintings” and the making of the imperial capital). Zhongyang yanjiuyuan jindaishi yanjiusuo jikan. No. 75 (March): 1-76.

_____. 2013a. “Mingren hua suanni tu kao” 明人畫狻猊圖考 (Some thoughts on Ming paintings of lions). Gugong wenwu yuekan. No. 359 (February): 46-59.

_____.  2013b. “Qinggong dui Oujiu ziranshi tuxiang de zaizhi: Yi Qianlong chao “Shoupu” wei lie” 清宮對歐洲自然史圖像的再製:以乾隆朝《獸譜》為例 (Reproducing European illustrations of natural history at the Qing Court: A Case Study of the Qianlong court’s “Album of Beasts”). Zhongyang yanjiuyuan jindaishi yanjiusuo jikan. No. 80 (June): 1-75.

_____.  2013c. “Qinggong yu Guangdong waixiaohua feng de jiaoliu: Wuming kuan Haidong cejing tuce chutan” 清宮與廣東外銷畫風的交會:無名款海東測景圖冊初探 (Encountering Canton export paintings style at the Qing court: A preliminary study of the album “Fathoming scenery east of the sea”). Gugong wenwu yuekan. No. 363 (June): 74-86.

Latour, Bruno. 1990. “Drawing Things Together.” In Representation in Scientific Practice. Eds. Michael Lynch, Steve Woolgar, 16-68. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press.

Li Weiming 李偉銘. 2005. Tuxiang yu lishi 圖像与歷史 [Picture and History]. Beijing: Zhongguo Renming daxue chubanshe.

_____.  2015. Chuantong yu biange: Zhongguo jindai meishu shishi kaolun傳統与變革: 中國近代美術史事考論 [Tradition and reform: Studies on the history of Chinese modern art]. Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan.

Liu, Shi-yee. 2015. “Containing the West in the Manchu Realm? Emperor Qianlong’s Deer Antler Scrolls.” Orientations 46, no. 6 (September): 60-69.

McDermott, Joseph. 2001. “Chinese lenses and Chinese art.” Kaikodo Journal 19 (Spring): 9–29.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. 2016. How to See the World. New York: Basic Books.

Moore, Oliver. 2005. “Visualizing Change: the Negative, Positive and Double Images of Photography's Subjects in Early Modern China.” In Zhongguo wenxue lishi yu sixiangzhong de guannian bianqian guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwenji. Taipei:Guoli Taiwan daxue wenxueyuan.

_____.  2008. “Zou Boqi on Vision and Photography in Nineteenth-Century China.” In The Human Tradition in Modern China. Eds. Kenneth J. Hammond and Kristin Stapleton, 33-53. New York, Toronto: Rowman & Littlefield.

Musilio, Marco. 2016. The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699–1812. Los Angeles: The Getty.

Onians, John. 2007. Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki. New Haven: Yale UP.

Pomian, Krzysztof. 1998. “Vision and Cognition.” In Picturing Science, Producing Art. Eds. Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison, 211-231. New York: Routledge.

Purtle, Jennifer. 2010. “Scopic Frames: Devices for Seeing China c. 1640.” Art History 33, no. 1 (February): 54-73.

Reinhold, Martin. 2003. “Pattern seeing.” In The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space, 42-79. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Rudwick, Martin. 1976. “The Emergence of a Visual Language for the Geological Science 1760- 1840.” History of Science 14, no. 3 (September): 149-195.

Scarry, Elaine. 1987. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York and London: Oxford UP.

Shea, William R., ed. 2000. Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightenment. Canton, MA: Science History Publications.

Stafford, Barbara. 1994. Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education. Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press.

_____. 1996. Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

_____. 1999. Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

_____. 2008. Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Tilley, Christopher. 2006. “Objectification.” In Handbook of Material Culture. Eds. Chris Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Mike Rowlands, and Patricia Spyer, 60-73. London: Sage.

Tuan, Yifu. 1989. “Surface phenomena and aesthetic experience.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 79, no. 2 (June): 233-41.

Vinograd, Richard. 1991. “Vision and Revision in Seventeenth-Century Painting.” In Proceedings of the Tung Ch'i-ch'ang International Symposium. Ed. Wai-ching Ho, 1-28.Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

_____. 2001. “Relocations: Spaces of Chinese Visual Modernity.” In Chinese Art, Modern Expressions. Eds. Maxwell Hearn, Judith Smith, 162-81. New York: Metropolitan Museum.

Wang, Cheng-hua. 2014. “Prints in Sino-European Artistic Interactions of the Early Modern Period.” In Face to Face: The Transcendence of the Arts in China and Beyond. Ed. Rui Oliveira Lopes, 428-63. Lisbon: University of Lisbon.

Wang, David Der-wei. 2001. “In the Name of the Real.” In Chinese Art, Modern Expressions. Ed. Maxwell Hearn, 28-59. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Wong, Aida Yuen. 2000. “A New Life for Literati Painting in the Early Twentieth Century: Eastern Art and Modernity, a Transcultural Narrative?” Artibus Asiae 60, no. 2: 297-326.

_____. 2015. The Other Kang Youwei: Calligrapher, Art Activist, and Aesthetic Reformer in Modern China. Leiden: Brill.

Zeki, Semir. 2003. Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain. Oxford: Oxford UP.

Zou, Hui. 2001. “Jesuit Perspective in China.” Architectura: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Baukunst/ Journal of the history of architecture. 31, no. 2: 145-168.

Science in East Asia


Dirlik, Arif, Guannan Li and Hsiao-pei Yen, eds. 2012. Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism. Hong Kong: Chinese UP.

Dutta, Arindam. 2007. Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the age of  its global reproducibility. New York, London: Routledge.

Elman, Benjamin. 2003. “‘Universal Science’ versus ‘Chinese Science:’ The Changing Identity of Natural Studies in China, 1850-1930.” Historiography East and West 1: 68-116.

____. 2005. On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard UP.

Fan, Fa-ti. 2004a. British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.

_____. 2004b. “Nature and Nation in Chinese Political Thought: The National Essence Circle in Early Twentieth-Century China.” In The Moral Authority of Nature. Eds. Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, 409-37. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

_____. 2008. “How did the Chinese Become Native? Science and the Search for National Origins in the May Fourth Era.” In Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search of Chinese Modernity. Ed. Kai-wing Chou, et. al., 183-208. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

Li Tingju 李廷舉. 1998. “Nihon no kagaku gijutsu no Chügoku e no eikyö” 日本の科学技術の中国への影響 (The Influence of Japanese science and technology on China). In Kagaku gijutsu, Nichichü bunka köryüshi sösho. 8. Eds. Yoshida Tadashi 吉田忠 and Li Tingju, 396-436. Tokyo: Taishokan shoten.

Liu, Lydia He. 1995. Translingual practice : literature, national culture, and translated modernity--China, 1900-1937. Stanford: Stanford UP.

Meng, Yue. 1999. “Hybrid Science versus Modernity: The Practice of the Jiangnan Arsenal.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 16: 13-52.

Miller, David, and Peter Hanns Reill, eds. 1996. Visions of Empire: Voyages, botany, and representations of nature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Miller, Ian. 2013. The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo. Berkeley and London: University of California Press.

Nappi, Carla. 2009. The Monkey and the Ink-pot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China. Cambridge and London: Harvard UP.

Reynolds, David. 1991. “Redrawing China’s Intellectual Map: Images of Science in Nineteenth-Century China.” Late Imperial China 12, no. 1: 27-91.

Schneider, Lawrence. 2003. Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Shen, Grace Yen. 2014. Unearthing the Nation: Modern geology and nationalism in Republican China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Standaert, Nicholas. 2000. “The Classification of Science and the Jesuit Mission in Late Ming China.” In Linked Faiths: Essays on Chinese Religions and Traditional Culture in Honour of Kristofer Schipper. Eds. Jan A.M. De Meyer and Peter M. Engelfriet, 287-317. Leiden: Brill.

Wang Yangzong 王揚宗. 1999. “Liuhe congtan zhong de jindai kexue zhishi ji qi zai Qingmo de yingxiang” 六合叢談中的近代科學知識及其在清末的影響 (Knowledge of modern science in the Shanghai Serial and its impact in the late Qing). Zhongguo keji shiliao 20 (March): 211-226.

Wang, Hui. 1995. “The Fate of ‘Mr. Science’ in China: The Concept of Science and Its Application in Modern Chinese Thought.” positions: east asia cultures critiques 3, no. 1 (Spring): 14-29.

_____. 2001. “On Scientism and Social Theory in Modern Chinese Thought.” In Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry. Ed. Gloria Davies, 135-56. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

_____. 2009. “Discursive Community and the Geneology of Scientific Categories.” In Everyday Modernity in China. Eds. Joshua Goldstein, Dong Yue, 84-120. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Wright, David. 1998. “The Translation of Modern Western Science in Nineteenth-Century China, 1840-1895.” Isis 89, no. 4 (December): 653-73.

Vision and Visuality

Berger, Patricia. Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008.

Burkus-Chasson, Anne. ‘“Clouds and mist that emanate and sink away:” Shitao’s Waterfall on Mount Lu and practices of observation in the seventeenth century.’ Art History 19, no. 2 (1996): 169–90.(JSTOR)

Chen, Hui-hung. “Chinese Perception of European Perspective: A Jesuit Case in the Seventeenth Century.” Seventeenth Century 24, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 97-128.

Clarke, David. “Revolutions in Vision: Chinese Art and the Experience of Modernity.” In The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture. Ed. Kam Louie, 272-296. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Claypool, Lisa. “Ways of Seeing the Nation: Chinese Painting in the National Essence Journal (1905-1911) and Exhibition Culture.” positions: east asia cultures critique 19, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 52-85. (Project Muse)

Claypool, Lisa. “Zhang Jian and China’s First Museum.” The Journal of Asian Studies 64, no. 3 (August 2005): 567-604. (JSTOR)

Clunas, Craig. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Corsi, Elisabetta. “Envisioning Perspective: Nian Xiyao’s (1671-1738) Rendering of Western Perspective in the Prologues to ‘The Science of Vision.’” In A Life Journey to the East: Sinological Studies in Memory of Giuliano Certuccioli (1923-2001). Eds. Federico Masini, et. al. Kyoto: Italian School of East Asian Studies, 2002.

Des Forges, Alexander. Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultual Production. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.

Giès, Jacques. “Perspectiva ou Science de la vision de Nian Xiyao (?–1739): Le paradoxe récurrent de la rencontre Chine-Occident.” In Les Très Riches Heures de la Cour de Chine: Chefs-d’oeuvre de la peinture impériale des Qing, 1662–1796. Ed. Marie-Catherine Rey, 13-43. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2006.

Hearn, Maxwell, and Judith Smith, eds. Chinese Art: Modern Expressions. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.

Kuo, Jason, ed. Visual Culture in Shanghai 1850s-1930s. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2007.

Ma, Meng-ching. “Ermu zhi wan: cong Xixiangji banhua chatu lun wan Ming chuban wenhua dui shijuexing zhi guanzhu” (Looking through the frame: visuality in late-Ming illustrations to The Story of the Western Wing). Taida Journal of Art History 13 (September 2002): 201–76.

Ma, Meng-ching. “Fragmentation and Framing of the Text: Visuality and Narrativity in the Late-Ming Illustrations to “The Story of the Western Wing.”’ PhD dissertation, Stanford University, 2006.

McDermott, Joseph. “Chinese lenses and Chinese art.” Kaikodo Journal 19 (Spring 2001): 9–29.

Moore, Oliver. "Visualizing Change: the Negative, Positive and Double Images of Photography's Subjects in Early Modern China." In Zhongguo wenxue lishi yi sixiangzhong de guannian bianqian guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwenj. Taipei:Guoli Taiwan daxue wenxueyuan, 2005.

Moore, Oliver. “Zou Boqi on Vision and Photography in Nineteenth-Century China.” In The Human Tradition in Modern China. Eds. Kenneth J. Hammond and Kristin Stapleton, 33-53. New York, Toronto: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.

Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China 4, pt. 1, 78-125. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962.

Pang, Lai-kwan. The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.

Purtle, Jennifer. “Scopic Frames: Devices for Seeing China c. 1640.” Art History 33, no. 1 (February 2010): 54-73. (JSTOR)

Vinograd, Richard. “Fan Ch’i (1616 after 1694): Place-Making and the Semiotics of Sight in Seventeenth-Century Nanching.” Mei-shu yan-chiu chi-k’an 14 (Min’guo 92 [2003]): 129-147.

Vinograd, Richard. “Vision and Revision in Seventeenth-Century Painting.” In Proceedings of the Tung Ch’i-ch’ang International Symposium. Ed. Wai-ching Ho, 18/1-18/28. Kansas: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991.

Zou, Hui. “Jesuit Perspective in China.” Architectura vol. 31 (2001): 145-168.

Individual Artists (alphabetical order by the artist's surname): Select Bibliographies

Guiseppe Castiglione

see sources under "Castiglione and print culture"

Thomas Daniell

Early views of India : the picturesque journeys of Thomas and William Daniell, 1786-1794 : the complete aquatints
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.
Publisher:: Thames and Hudson
Pub date:: 1980.
ISBN:: 0500012385
Call Number: DS 408 D18 1980 (Rutherford)

Oil paintings of India and the east by Thomas Daniell 1749-1840 and William Daniell 1769-1837
Shellim, Maurice.
Publisher::            Inchcape & Co. in conjunction with Spink & Son,
Pub date::            c1979.
ISBN::            0950674001
Call Numbers: ND 497 D18 S54 1979 folio (Rutherford)

A descriptive catalogue of Daniells work in the Victoria Memorial
Victoria Memorial (Museum)
Publisher::            Victoria Memorial,
Pub date::            [1976?]
Pages::            ii, 76 p., [9] leaves of plates :
1 copy available at University of Alberta Book and Record Depository.

The Daniells in India and the waterfall at Papanasam
Shellim, Maurice
Publisher::            The Statesman,
Pub date::            1970
1 copy available at University of Alberta Book and Record Depository.

Electronic Resources:
Oriental scenery : containing twenty-four views of the architecture, antiquities and landscape scenery of Hindoostan
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.

A picturesque voyage to India by the way of China
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.

Antiquities of India. : Twelve views from the drawings of Thomas Daniell, R.A. & F.S.A. Engraved by himself, and William Daniell. Taken in the years 1790 and 1793. Dedicated respectfully to the Society of Antiquaries of London. London, Oct. 15, 1799
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.

Oriental scenery. Twenty-four views in Hindoostan, taken in the years 1789 and 1790 drawn and engraved by Thomas Daniell
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.

Oriental scenery. Twenty-four views in Hindoostan, taken in the year 1792; drawn by Thomas Daniell, and engraved by himself and William Daniell
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.

Gao Jianfu

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