This book is akin to Midnight in Paris directed by Woody Allen. The author creates a college student and an imaginary ceramic lady. Together they travel through time, come across several key figures in Chinese art history and take part in many important events in person. On the basis of precise textural research and a great deal of references, the author traces ......

Professor Fu Shen gave 12 lectures on the history and connoisseurship of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting at Xixi Campus, Zhejiang University from March to April 2015. This book is the collection of all his 12 lectures.

Part of Academic Series of Silk Road & Dunhuang Studies of Zhejiang Scholars. This book selects transportation periods and centers from the prehistoric period to Tang & Song Dynasties in FANG Hao’s History of Chinese and Western Transportation. Some of the contents agree with the cultural communication of the Silk Road. This book makes detailed explanati......

The West Discovers East Asian Art is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title. It contains two essays, explaining in detail the setting up and development of collections of East Asian art and culture in the West. The book also includes entries of the rare books displayed in the exhibition, covering many important works (including exhibition......

This book is a relatively complete, enriched, and self-organized work on ancient Chinese. Consisting of 20 chapters, it broadly discusses such specialized items as philology, phonology, exegetics, explanation of special meaning of words, sentence pattern, flexible use of parts of speech, special words, different grammar in ancient and modern times, rhetoric, bib......

Colored lacquer with gold paint is an endangered traditional Chinese craft dating back to Hemudu culture more than 7,000 years ago. At that time, people living in Southern China (mainly in Ningbo, Zhejiang) foliated and ground gold and silver, and then added paints to color, trace or fill the patterns on the surface of woodwares. After that, they would elaborat......