China Classic Paintings Art History Series - Book 1: Mythology, Chinese Version China Classic Paintings Art History Books provide a unique experience for children and people of all ages. The selections are famous ancient China paintings. Each is accompanied by an informative educational caption which gives a short informative "snapshot" of the picture's history, setting, and background. Parents and teachers will find the selections a simple enjoyable way to introduce children to Chinese art, history, and culture. Adults interested in learning a bit about China and its extraordinary history and civilization will find the captions interesting and informative. All will enjoy being swept away into the lovely landscapes, costumes, and people. There are currently five books in this Mead-Hill series. www.mead-hill.com

China Classic Paintings Art History Series - Book 1: Mythology China Classic Paintings Art History Books provide a unique experience for children and people of all ages. The selections are famous ancient China paintings. Each is accompanied by an informative educational caption which gives a short informative "snapshot" of the picture's history, setting, and background. Parents and teachers will find the selections a simple enjoyable way to introduce children to Chinese art, history, and culture. Adults interested in learning a bit about China and its extraordinary history and civilization will find the captions interesting and informative. All will enjoy being swept away into the lovely landscapes, costumes, and people. There are currently five books in this Mead-Hill series. http: //mead-hill.wixsite.com/mead-hill

China Classic Paintings Art History Series - Book 4: People in the Countryside China Classic Paintings Art History Books provide a unique experience for children and people of all ages. The selections are famous ancient China paintings. Each is accompanied by an informative educational caption which gives a short informative "snapshot" of the picture's history, setting, and background. Parents and teachers will find the selections a simple enjoyable way to introduce children to Chinese art, history, and culture. Adults interested in learning a bit about China and its extraordinary history and civilization will find the captions interesting and informative. All will enjoy being swept away into the lovely landscapes, costumes, and people. There are currently five books in this Mead-Hill series. www.mead-hill.com

China Classic Paintings Art History Series - Book 3: People from History, Chinese Version China Classic Paintings Art History Books provide a unique experience for children and people of all ages. The selections are famous ancient China paintings. Each is accompanied by an informative educational caption which gives a short informative "snapshot" of the picture's history, setting, and background. Parents and teachers will find the selections a simple enjoyable way to introduce children to Chinese art, history, and culture. Adults interested in learning a bit about China and its extraordinary history and civilization will find the captions interesting and informative. All will enjoy being swept away into the lovely landscapes, costumes, and people. There are currently five books in this Mead-Hill series. www.mead-hill.com

What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Richly illustrated, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers in China and beyond have irrevocably shaped this great artistic tradition. Arguing that audiences within China were crucially important to the evolution of Chinese painting, Clunas considers how Chinese artists have imagined the reception of their own work. By examining paintings that depict people looking at paintings, he introduces readers to ideal types of viewers: the scholar, the gentleman, the merchant, the nation, and the people. In discussing the changing audiences for Chinese art, Clunas emphasizes that the diversity and quantity of images in Chinese culture make it impossible to generalize definitively about what constitutes Chinese painting. Exploring the complex relationships between works of art and those who look at them, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences sheds new light on how the concept of Chinese painting has been formed and reformed over hundreds of years.

China Classic Paintings Art History Series - Book 2: Nature China Classic Paintings Art History Books provide a unique experience for children and people of all ages. The selections are famous ancient China paintings. Each is accompanied by an informative educational caption which gives a short informative "snapshot" of the picture's history, setting, and background. Parents and teachers will find the selections a simple enjoyable way to introduce children to Chinese art, history, and culture. Adults interested in learning a bit about China and its extraordinary history and civilization will find the captions interesting and informative. All will enjoy being swept away into the lovely landscapes, costumes, and people. There are currently five books in this Mead-Hill series. www.mead-hill.com

'During the Tang dynasty, the Chinese artist Wu Tao-tzu was one day standing looking at a mural he had just completed. Suddenly, he clapped his hands and the temple gate opened. He went into his work and the gates closed behind him.' Thus begins Sven Lindqvist's profound meditation on art and its relationship with life, first published in 1967, and a classic in his home country - it has never been out of print. As a young man, Sven Lindqvist was fascinated by the myth of Wu Tao-tzu, and by the possibility of entering a work of art and making it a way of life. He was drawn to artists and writers who shared this vision, especially Hermann Hesse, in his novel Glass Bead Game. Partly inspired by Hesse's work, Lindqvist lived in China for two years, learning classical calligraphy from a master teacher. There he was drawn deeper into the idea of a life of artistic perfectionism and retreat from the world. But when he left China for India and then Afghanistan, and saw the grotesque effects of poverty and extreme inequality, Lindqvist suffered a crisis of confidence and started to question his ideas about complete immersion in art at the expense of a proper engagement with life. The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu takes us on a fascinating journey through a young man's moral awakening and his grappling with profound questions of aesthetics. It contains the bracing moral anger, and poetic, intensely atmospheric travel writing Lindqvist's readers have come to love.

Even today the economic powerhouse of modern China takes strength and nourishment from its legacy of antiquity. Ancient China illuminates this venerable heritage with unprecedented scholarship and vividness.

China Classic Paintings Art History Series - Book 5: Scenes from the Countryside China Classic Paintings Art History Books provide a unique experience for children and people of all ages. The selections are famous ancient China paintings. Each is accompanied by an informative educational caption which gives a short informative "snapshot" of the picture's history, setting, and background. Parents and teachers will find the selections a simple enjoyable way to introduce children to Chinese art, history, and culture. Adults interested in learning a bit about China and its extraordinary history and civilization will find the captions interesting and informative. All will enjoy being swept away into the lovely landscapes, costumes, and people. There are currently five books in this Mead-Hill series. www.mead-hill.com