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Up the River of Time: The Chinese Painting Tradition of Qingming Shanghe

Contributor(s): Wang, Cheng-Hua (Author)

ISBN: 9780674302617

Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Pub Date: June 2, 2026

Lexile Code: 0000

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Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.00" H x 11.27" L x 8.71" W ( 3.11 lbs) 366 pages

BISAC Categories:

Art | Asian | Chinese | Techniques | Painting General | History | Asia | China

Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph

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Description: Qingming shanghe, dubbed China's Mona Lisa, is a revered painting attributed to Zhang Zeduan (960-1127). Up the River of Time is the first study to treat the Qingming shanghe as a painting tradition, showing how the Northern Song original and later iterations shaped the norms of painting and redefined the meanings of reproduction and forgery.

Brief description: Cheng-hua Wang is an Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.

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