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Asian Studies

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In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

The South Korean Film Industry

Edited by Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin, and Junhyung Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Art, Art History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A multifaceted exploration of the South Korean film industry

Paris and the Art of Transposition

Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters

By Angie Chau
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Art, Art History
Series: China Understandings Today

How Chinese artists created a transnational imaginary

An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists

By Ellen Johnston Laing
Subjects: Reference, Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exhaustive reference work on traditional-style Chinese painting in the 20th century, complementing earlier guides to paintings from Imperial China

Chinese Paintings in Chinese Publications, 1956–1968

An Annotated Bibliography and Index to the Paintings

By Ellen Johnston Laing
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Reference, Art, Architecture
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A bibliography of publications issued between 1956 and August 1968 that reproduce Chinese paintings in public or private collections

Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art”

A Translation of the 1943 Text with Commentary

By Bonnie McDougall
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The complete text of a key work of Mao Zedong, with an examination of its literary, rather than political or historical, implications

Takebe Ayatari

A Bunjin Bohemian in Early Modern Japan

By Lawrence Marceau
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Art, Photography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A multi-faceted look at the life and milieu of a mid-eighteenth-century aesthete

Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints

Selections from the Muban Foundation Collection

By Ellen Johnston Laing
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Explores the artistic and aesthetic bases of popular Chinese woodblock prints

Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity

Clocks of Late Imperial China

By Catherine Mary Pagani
Subjects: Asian Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Art, Architecture

An exploration of the important role played by elaborate clockwork in relations between China and Europe from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries

Getting Around in Chinese

Chinese Skits for Beginners

By Hilda Tao
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China

Promotes practical use of language skills in everyday settings

The World around the Chinese Artist

Aspects of Realism in Chinese Painting

By Richard Edwards
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies

Traces the relationship between the self and landscape across three masters of Chinese painting

An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists

Revised Edition

By Ellen Johnston Laing
Subjects: Reference, Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exhaustive reference work on traditional-style Chinese painting in the 20th century, complementing earlier guides to paintings from Imperial China

Painting and Calligraphy in the Wu-tsa-tsu

Conservative Aesthetics in Seventeenth-Century China

By Sewall Oertling & Sewall Oertling
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A fine sourcebook on Ming art and culture

The Cult of Kasuga Seen Through Its Art

By Susan Tyler
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Art, Photography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A detailed and animating study of the syncretic cult of Kasuga Shrine at its height in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries

Literary and Art Theories in Japan

By Makoto Ueda
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Art, Photography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A critical examination of Japanese literary and art theories.

A Song for One or Two

Music and the Concept of Art in Early China

By Kenneth DeWoskin
Subjects: Philosophy, Music, Musicology, Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Formulates a general and tentative definition of aesthetics in China from early discussions of music [6]

The Lives of the Buddha in the Art and Literature of Asia

By Mary Cummings
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Art, Architecture, Religion, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Twenty-seven Jataka tales and Life-of-the-Buddha episodes are compared with depictions of these stories in Asian art.

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