University of Washington Press

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A Fashionable Century

Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing Rachel Silberstein
  • 2020
  • 296 pages
  • 92 color illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

What the Emperor Built

Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming Aurelia Campbell
  • 2020
  • 240 pages
  • 109 illus., 58 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

Yumeji Modern

Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan Nozomi Naoi
  • 2020
  • 300 pages
  • 112 illus., 36 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

Where Dragon Veins Meet

The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe Stephen Whiteman
  • 2020
  • 292 pages
  • 113 color illus., 21 maps, 7 x 10 in.
  • $70.00 cloth
  • $70.00 ebook

Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy

Lei Xue
  • 2019
  • 240 pages
  • 83 illus., 8 in color, 2 maps, 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

Climate Change and the Art of Devotion

Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850 Sugata Ray
  • 2019
  • 272 pages
  • 114 color illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $70.00 cloth
  • $70.00 ebook

Empire of Style

Silk and Fashion in Tang China BuYun Chen
  • 2019
  • 288 pages
  • 119 illus., 96 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $70.00 cloth
  • $70.00 ebook

Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains

Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas Nachiket Chanchani
  • 2019
  • 280 pages
  • 111 illus., 80 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $70.00 cloth
  • $70.00 ebook

Shifting Grounds

Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art Kate Morris
  • 2019
  • 208 pages
  • 46 color illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $50.00 cloth
  • $50.00 ebook

Proud Raven, Panting Wolf

Carving Alaska’s New Deal Totem Parks Emily L. Moore
  • 2018
  • 288 pages
  • 105 illus., 19 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $39.95 cloth
  • $39.95 ebook

Creating the Universe

Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism Eric Huntington
  • 2018
  • 304 pages
  • 154 illus., 118 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets

The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean Art Sunglim Kim
  • 2018
  • 304 pages
  • 99 illus., 80 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

The Art of Resistance

Painting by Candlelight in Mao's China Shelley Drake Hawks
  • 2017
  • 304 pages
  • 96 color illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

Excavating the Afterlife

The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion Guolong Lai
  • 2015
  • 320 pages
  • 81 b/w illus., 14 color plates, 1 map, 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth

Imperial Illusions

Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces Kristina Kleutghen
  • 2015
  • 384 pages
  • 112 color illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $70.00 cloth
  • $70.00 ebook

Building a Sacred Mountain

The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai Wei-Cheng Lin
  • 2014
  • 352 pages
  • 102 illus., 12 in color, 10 maps, 7 x 10 in.
  • $60.00 cloth
  • $60.00 ebook

Chang’an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture

Shuishan Yu
  • 2012
  • 344 pages
  • 118 color illus., 7 x 10
  • $60.00 cloth
  • $60.00 ebook