2016. Softcover. Folding fans became quite fashionable in the Ming and Qing dynasties, representing a development on round silk fans previously popular in the Song and Yuan dynasties. The folding fan actually originated in Japan, and though a few were imported into China during the Song and Yuan period, this... More
Getty Conservation Institute, 2016. 9.5 x 1.2 x 11 inches, 302 pages, Text in English, Getty Conservation Institute; 1st edition (May 7, 2016). The Mogao grottoes in northwestern China, located near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world’s most significant sites of Buddhist... More
Beijing: 2014. 127 pages: color illustrations ; 31 cm. Text in Chinese. 本书以东波斋藏明代皇家金器为实例探讨了明代金银器的发展史. 全文主要分为两个部分, 首先回顾了明代金银器的发展历程, 然后再以东波斋珍藏的以万历辛丑 (1601) 年银造局所作的明代皇家金器为主要实物资料, 论述中国古代社会晚期的金银器发展, 包括精美器形以及工艺, 联系当时的国家实力、阶级状况、美学思潮等对明代皇家金器进行了较为深入的研究. More
Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 2018. 8.8 ×11.8", 1.5kg, xi, 294pp., color plates, text in Japanese with English greetings and list of works, paper cover. This catalogue is compiled by the Tokyo National Museum for the exhibition celebrating the 130th Anniversary of KOKKA and the 140th Anniversary of The Asahi Shimbun... More
Edo-Tokyo Museum, 2017. 8.2 x 11.6", 1kg ,228pp., color plates, texts in Chinese, Japanese and English, paper cover. By comparing Edo and Beijing in the 18th century, this exhibition catalogue aims to introduce people the life in a city with a history that differs from their own, stimulating a sensitive... More
2012. softcover. After Emperor Taizong ascending the throne, he ordered the imperial artist Yan Liben to depict the eighteen scholars that he had gathered and to illustrate his virtue in respecting men of learning. Later artists often took delight in citing from this record to create their own interpretations of... More
2014. Softcover. 插花、賞花、種植盆栽或營造盆景，已有千年以上發展史。將大自然美景移於居室，豐富生活趣味，至今仍然蓬勃風行，生氣盎然，並衍生許多流派，豐富人們的生活。「瓶盆風華—明清花器特展」圖錄以「盆景器」與「插花器」兩單元，說明明代以降花藝的發展，呈現明清兩代花器風尚，使我們藉此領略古典花藝與現今流派的聯結，對當今花藝創作者亦能有所助益。. More
2012. softcover. This book begins with the study of art pieces to breaking down the three different stages of feats and accomplishments by emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong: From experiments to successful production, from classification of style and taste to establishing new tradition, and to eventually managing imperial politics and... More
Taipei: National Palace Museum Taipei, 2018. 8.6 x 11.8", 2.5kg，439pp., color plates, texts in Chinese and English, paper cover. “Suzhou fakes” are fake but fine works of painting and calligraphy from the former Qing palace collection produced in the 16th to 18th century and related to Suzhou styles. The exhibition... More
2016. Softcover. The exhibition The Forbidden City and the Odyssey of Its Treasures: A Photographic Retrospective is comprised of seven sections: "The Imperial Household," "The Last Emperor and Empress," "The Imperial Couple's Tutors and Friends," "The Palaces and Gardens," "The Late Qing Reforms," "Chinese Society in the Late Qing and... More
Shanghai: 1940. 5.75 x 8.25", reprint of 1851 ed., clxviii pp., index, paper, Shanghai, 1940. Reprint of the Canton 1851 edition. A general index of the Chinese Repository from January to December 1851 with an arranged list of the articles. More
2012. Album of Sketches from Life" is undated, but judging from a combination of evidence, such as painting technique, style of calligraphy, and use of seals, it is most likely Hua Yan's late work from after the age of sixty. The album leaves present a wide range of figural, bird... More
8.5 x 11.4", 363 pp, color plates, text in Chinese with English captions, cloth, 2008. This book focuses on a collection of bronze vessels unearthed from a small village in Baoji City in Northwest China in 2003. It also contains bronzes unearthed from the same site in 1955, 1972 and... More
Nara: Nara National Museum, 2012. 8.2 x 11.6", 1.5kg，286pp., color plates, texts in Japanese with English forward and captions, paper cover. Gedatsu Shonin Jokei (1155-1213) was a Buddhist monk active in the early years of the Kamakura period. He strove to revive the percepts observed by Buddhist monks various historic... More
Suntory Museum of Art, 2018. 8.8 x 11.6", 1.5kg ,267pp., color plates, texts in Japanese with English caption, paper cover. Kan’ei Culture was characterized by chic, elegant forms that can be symbolized by the Japanese term kirei, or lovely. These tastes combined with the classical revival of the day to... More
台北: Museum of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 中央研究院历史语言研究所, 2002. xviii, 230 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm. In Chinese and English. More
2016. softcover. 「嘉慶君遊臺灣」，是一則由來已久的臺灣民間故事。事實上，嘉慶皇帝從未來臺，但傳說中嘉慶君在臺遊歷，考察民情，鋤強扶助，成為臺灣獨鍾的傳奇性人物。嘉慶君(1760-1820)，全名愛新覺羅‧顒琰，是滿族入關後第五位皇帝一清仁宗睿皇帝(1795-1820)，嘉慶是他的年號。在位期間，平定了許多內部動亂，抑制社會危機；另方面，他繼續推動乾隆朝文化事業，整理皇室收藏，編纂官書，其詩作豐富，數量雖僅次其父，足稱為中國皇朝第二位多產詩人。 本特展即以嘉慶皇帝一生事蹟為主線，透過「嘉慶君‧遊臺灣」、「嘉慶皇帝其人」、「宮廷藝術與收藏」、「廣續文化事業」以及「安內靖亂」五大單元，除精選院藏嘉慶朝文物外，並結合相關單位與私人收藏代表性文物，呈現嘉慶朝臺灣的社會風俗及傳說、嘉慶君的生平、嘉慶朝內府原藏、當朝藝術以及武功政績等，實現嘉慶文物一遊臺灣的構想。. More
2012. softcover. This is the exhibition catalogue for the Mapping the Imperial Realm: an Exhibition on Historical Maps. Imitating the exhibition, this book used rivers, mountains, and border lines to produce "Charting the Rivers," "Marking the Borders," and "Guarding the Seas." 54 historical maps during the Ming/Qing era were carefully... More
2013. softcover. 本系列《月刊叢書續編》集結長年為《故宮文物月刊》撰稿同仁的文章，由作者自行擷採精作，分目編類，以個人專輯方式出版。本書共分「宮廷院體與貴族品味」、「盛清繪畫與西洋傳教士」、「歷代界畫透視」及「主題特展選萃」四個主題，帶領讀者品味作者林莉娜在近距離鑑賞畫作後提出的看法。. More
2016. paperback. The National Palace Museum (NPM) houses a rich collection of classic, representative Tibetan Buddhist art, of which the Kangxi Kangyur (the Tibetan Dragon Canon) is the most renowned. The Kangxi Kangyur, which comprises 108 cases of manuscripts, was made when the Grand Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang (1613–1688) asked the... More
2016. softcover. Precious as the morning star" comes from poetry by the Qianlong Emperor in the 18th century. Both "Precious and few as morning stars" and "The morning star truly is precious" are lines that compare something rare and treasured to the fleeting and infrequent phenomenon of a morning star... More
From Oct. 2012 to Jan. 2013, the National Palace Museum (NPM) and the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Exchange Association co-hosted The Cultural Grandeur of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The said exhibition was ranked by a British art journal (i.e., The Art Newspaper) as the number one exhibition among the top 10... More
International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2002. Green cloth, gilt. In mint condition. Text in Japanese. Illustrated in colour, high quality paper. Approx. 200p altogether. More
