Chinese pictorial art

by Robert van Gulik

Chinese pictorial art as viewed by the connoisseur : notes on the means and methods of traditional Chinese connoisseurship of pictorial art, based upon a study of the art of mounting scrolls in China and Japan. With 160 plates, and 42 actual samples of Chinese and Japanese paper, in pocket

557 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Robert Hans van Gulik was a Dutch diplomat best known for his Judge Dee stories. His first published book, The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, was a translation of an eighteenth-century Chinese murder mystery by an unknown author; he went on to write new mysteries for Judge Dee, a character based on a historical figure from the seventh century. He also wrote academic books, mostly on Chinese history.