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The Painting Master's Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings was written. Amy McNair's translation and analysis offers a definitive argument for Liang Shicheng, not Emperor Huizong, as the catalogue's compiler.

A simply written, deeply personal look at marriage that draws its inspiration from the Ten Commandments.

Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100‿1125). Dated to 1120, the Catalogue is divided into ten categories of subject matter. Under Daoist and Buddhist Subjects, Figural Subjects, Architecture, Barbarian Tribes, Dragons and Fish, Landscape, Domestic and Wild Animals, Flowers and Birds, Ink Bamboo, and Vegetables and Fruit are biographies of 231...

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In the history of Chinese calligraphy, few are more famous than the eighth-century statesman Yan Zhenqing (709-785). His style is still taught today as a standard, and Chinese bookstores the world over stock inexpensive reproductions of his works for sale as copybooks. Yet Yan's style cannot be called conventionally attractive. "Correct, " "severe, " "serious, " "forceful" are terms habitually applied to describe his writing--rarely has his ca...

A simply written, deeply personal look at marriage that draws its inspiration from the Ten Commandments.