The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting : : A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition / / ed. by Mai-mai Sze.

Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan" (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has translated and annotated the texts of instructions, discussions of the fundamentals of painti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1978
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Bollingen Series (General) ; 197
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Physical Description:1 online resource (648 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Publisher's Note
  • Contents
  • Traditional Chronology
  • Introduction
  • Preface to the Shanghai (1887—88) Edition
  • Part I
  • Preface to the First (1679) Edition
  • The Fundamentals of Painting
  • Book of Trees
  • Book of Rocks
  • Book of Jên-wu
  • Part II
  • Preface to Parts II and III of the First Complete Edition (1701)
  • Book of the Orchid
  • Book of the Bamboo
  • Book of the Plum
  • Book of the Chrysanthemum
  • Part III
  • Book of Grasses, Insects, and Flowering Plants
  • Book of Feathers-and-Fur and Flowering Plants
  • Concluding Notes on the Preparation of Colors
  • Summary of the Chieh Τzŭ Yüan Hua Chuan
  • Appendix: Analysis of Basic Terms
  • Index