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

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

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Format: Hardback
Length: 436 pages
Publication date: 26 June 2026
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center

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.


Dimension: 279 x 216 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780674302617

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