The most comprehensive English-language reference for Chinese painting and calligraphy prior to the end of the Qing dynasty (1911). Focusing on connoisseurship, art criticism, appraisal criteria and market trends, scholar and appraiser Wei Yang introduces the basics of Chinese painting and calligraphy, analyzes the most important artists and their work and provides workable guidelines for the valuation of artwork. Chapters on materials, brushstrokes and style, written words on painting, dating, traditional sources, connoisseurship, plus individual entries on 293 painters, including biographies, important works, stylistic analysis, signatures, seals and market performance. Introduces principles and methods of valuation and includes recent sales data. Includes 600 illustrations, 8 tables, hundreds of signatures, seals, plus bibliography & indexes.

About the Author

Wei Yang, Ph.D., is a Chinese art historian, art appraiser and writer. With degrees from Smith College (B.A and M.A.) and Northwestern University (Ph.D.), she holds two designations as Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) in the American Society of Appraisers. She published Wei Yang’s Guide to Chinese Painting & Calligraphy, 2 vols. (Nankai University Press, 2022) and a memoir in Chinese, Desert Bloom (Sha zaohua de gushi沙枣花的故事, Beijing Publishing House, 2021).

2022, Nankai University Press, 2 volumes, hardcover, 1049 pp., as new