Double Beauty II: Qing Dynasty Couplets from the Lechangzai Xuan Collection (Hardcover)
9.25 x 12", 405 pp., 150 color plates, notes of entries, list of people cited, text in English and Chinese, cloth, d.j., Hong Kong, 2007. The Chinese couplet is a unique literary form that manifests the extensive use of parallelism in the classic tradition. Calligraphers, scholars, officials and even emperors... More