Series: Publications of the Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University

A beautifully illustrated study of the caves at Dunhuang, exploring how this important Buddhist site has been visualised from its creation to today. Situated at the crossroads of the northern and southern routes of the ancient silk routes in western China, Dunhuang is one of the richest Buddhist sites in the world, with more than 500 richly decorated cave temples...

Yoshiaki Shimizu, one of the foremost scholars of Japanese art history, taught at Princeton University for more than twenty-five years, during which time he trained many students who have become respected professors and museum professionals. Crossing the Sea gathers original essays by thirteen of these students, in honour of Shimizu's extraordinary career at Princeton, as well as his teaching at...

This richly illustrated book provides an anthology and summation of the work of one of the world's leading historians of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Art as History by Wen C. Fong reflects a career that spanned over five decades at Princeton University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he helped to establish the field of East Asian art history....