University of Toronto Press, 1980. Hardcover. More

Yale University Press, 2010. Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world’s most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward inland centers and preoccupied with the blood of royal lineage and..... More

University of Pennsylvania Press. The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India. But..... More

University of Hawaii Press, 2007. HB. The third-century Chinese chronicle Wei zhi (Record of Wei) is responsible for Japan’s most enduring ancient mystery. This early history tells of a group of islands off the China coast that were dominated by a female shaman named Himiko. Himiko ruled for more than..... More

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967. HB. Records of 62 conferences held in Tokyo between March and December of 1941. They provide direct access to the thinking and planning of Japan's highest leaders as they prepared for war. More

Columbia University Press, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. More

Art Media Resources, Inc., 2016. Cloth. About this Series Consisting of three volumes, On Chinese Art features 56 essays (presented as chapters) written by the art historian Wu Hung after he moved to the United States in the 1980s. Selected by the author himself, these essays have been organized in..... More

Harvard University Press. 8.5 x 11.25", xviii, 448 pp., 180 b/w illustrations, contributors, detailed notes, index, cloth, d.j., Cambridge, 2005. Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that..... More