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Lu Shengzhong: The Book of Humanity by Lu Shengzhong Synopsis The Chinese folk art of paper-cutting is ancient, but Lu Shengzhong's artistic practice, which employs it, is thoroughly modern. His signature Little Red Figure, a slightly devious-looking splayed personage, is as distinctive as a Haring graffiti man... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution by Lincoln Cushing Publisher Comments The Cultural Revolution in China produced thousands of powerful social and political posters exhorting the Chinese people in a sweeping transformation of Chinese society. These brilliantly colorful images of cultural celebration, industrial development... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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China Talks by Jerome Sans Publisher Comments Never before have so many Chinese artists been given such a wide platform to discuss their works and lives so directly, in the form of dialogues with one of the world's most dynamic curators and critics, who allows the reader to meet the artist behind... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Chinese Art Revised Edition by Mary Tregear Publisher Comments At a time when interest in China has never been greater, this revised edition of Mary Tregear's authoritative survey of the Chinese visual arts will be welcomed by art lovers, travelers, and students alike. Generously illustrated and eminently readable... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Semiotic Warfare: The Chinese Avant-Garde 1979-1989: A Semiotic Analysis by Martina Koppel Yang Publisher Comments Semiotic Warfare looks at the Chinese avant-garde art movement in the 1980s. It takes the perspective that this art was a factor in the radical political and social changes that took place in the first decennium after the Cultural Revolution. The author... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Art in China (Oxford History of Art) by Craig Clunas Publisher Comments About the Oxford History of Art Series: "An impressively challenging and ambitious series intended to rewrite no less than the whole history of art in terms of new ideas and new scholarship."--Christopher White, Director of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Firecrackers!: An Eye-Popping Collection of Chinese Firework Art by Warren Dotz Publisher Comments Firecrackers, sparklers, and rockets offer maximum flash for minimum cash, and over the years, manufacturers have created dazzling labels to hype their pyrotechnic products. FIRECRACKERS pays tribute to this eye-popping art form, featuring some of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Art and Architecture of China: The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art (Pelican History of Art) by Laurence C Sickman Publisher Comments With almost 4000 years of artistic evolution - from the Shang Dynasty to the end of the Ch'ing in this century - the Chinese boast a longer span of cultural history than any other race. The abiding influence of tradition is stressed by both authors... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shanghai Style: Art and Design Between the Wars by Lynn Pan Publisher Comments From the 1920s to the 1940s, no place was more modern than Shanghai: a veritable playground amid a sea of Asian and European influences; an urban population clamoring for all that was new and Western, but whose aesthetic sensibilities remained profoundly... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Arts of China, Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded by Michael Sullivan Publisher Comments For the fifth edition of his internationally renowned The Arts of China, Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded every chapter of this classic history of Chinese art from the Neolithic period to the present day. This new edition reflects the... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives by Charles Al Williams Publisher Comments This standard reference, long familiar to students of Chinese culture, emphasizes the historical, legendary, or supernatural persons, animals and objects as symbols in art and literature. 402 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and Nineties by Thomas Berghuis Publisher Comments Published in conjunction with an ambitious multi-part exploration of Chinese culture in the Netherlands at The Groninger Museum and The Drents Museum in Assen, this volume considers art produced in China from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. That country'... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $26.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China by Michael Sullivan Publisher Comments This visually stunning book focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. Michael Sullivan, recognized throughout the world as a leading scholar of Chinese art, vividly documents the... (read more) List Price $109.50 Your price: $55.00 Used - Hardcover
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Arts of China 4TH Edition Expanded & Revised by Michael Sullivan Publisher Comments For the fourth edition of his much-heralded The Arts of China, last published in 1984, Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded this classic history of Chinese art from the Neolithic period to the 1990s. He draws on archaeological discoveries... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shanghai Kaleidoscope by Christophe Phillips Publisher Comments This oversize study of Shanghai's creative culture presents an adventurous mix of architectural models, digital simulations, designer fashion apparel, drawings, runway videos, paintings, photo-works and video installations by the city's leading... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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Writing Modern Chinese Art: Historiographic Explorations by Josh Yiu Synopsis The complexity and confusion of styles and intentions are true characters of modern Chinese art. This book explores the developments of Chinese art in the 20th century, applying critical theories to question and reinterpret concepts that are normally... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Qin Terracotta Army: Treasures of Lintong by Wen Li Chang Synopsis A fascinating study of this amazing archaeological discovery.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.00 Used - Hardcover
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Search for Ancient China (Discoveries) by C Debaine Francfort Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Young Chinese Artists: The Next Generation by Christoph Noe Synopsis The artists presented in this book came of age in a time when freedom of thought and expression was possible, if not exactly permitted. Unlike their predecessors, these artists do not feel a compulsion to politicize their work. The result is a generation... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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Collecting Chinese Art by Sam Bernstein Synopsis Much of what we know about early Chinese art is undergoing change in light of recent archaeological discoveries. This entertaining and informative volume by a leading specialist in the field illustrates and documents 120 outstanding Chinese works of art.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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