Chinese Art

This book Literati Gardens - Poetic Sentiment and Picturesque Allure presents the scientific research of the author and outstanding garden scientist Chen Congzhou on Chinese garden history and the art of garden culture over time.

As an introductory tutorial for Chinese knot lovers, this book selects 21 types of Chinese knots, including bracelets, earrings, chokers, festival decorations, wedding gifts, Hanfu accessories, car accessories, etc., with a large number of high-resolution images and captions in simplified Chinese characters only. QR codes are also available for each knot tutorial in the book, by scanning the QR codes in the book you can view videos demonstrating how to make the knots (with instructions in Mandarin Chinese only). The illustrated explanations and videos make it easy for readers to intuitively understand the details of knot making and to learn the 21 types of Chinese knots from easy to difficult even without knowledge of Chinese language.

Chinese calligraphy is an integral part of East Asian art and reflects the spirit of the Chinese nation. In China, calligraphy is seen as the epitome of Chinese culture and a national treasure. To meet the requirements of calligraphy, Huang Quanxin has compiled this Chinese calligraphy series as self-learning material.

Chinese calligraphy is an integral part of East Asian art and reflects the spirit of the Chinese nation. In China, calligraphy is seen as the epitome of Chinese culture and a national treasure. To meet the requirements of calligraphy, Huang Quanxin has compiled this Chinese calligraphy series as self-learning material.

"The Story of Burned Soil" is a graphic novel originally based on woodblock graphics and one of the representative works of Mr. Wo Zha, a famous modern graphic artist and a pioneer of the woodblock movement.

Dictionary of Seal Script [Chinese Edition]. ISBN: 9787551804332

This is a very special book. It offers a mix of Chinese art, Chinese calligraphy and Chinese linguistics. In the main part, it presents 10 characters and shows the connections between objects of art in relation to these characters.

Chinese calligraphy is an integral part of East Asian art and reflects the spirit of the Chinese nation. In China, calligraphy is seen as the epitome of Chinese culture and a national treasure. To meet the requirements of calligraphy, Huang Quanxin has compiled this Chinese calligraphy series as self-learning material.

Like Pictures - Like Chinese is an artistically valuable Chinese character discovery book for Chinese children. After ten years of field study in oracle bone script (note: oracle bone inscriptions are an original form of Chinese characters), a father edited this book for his three-year-old daughter in order to teach her the correct Chinese character learning method. He teamed up with an illustrious group, including a child psychologist and a children's book illustrator. The result is this unique works.

This illustrated book features a biography of brother Berchmann, an essay on the poitioning of his contribution to China's modern art history, as well as the passage from his diaries describing his long farewell. Admire brother Berchmann's works, his watercolor paintings and sketches that inspired him to show the old buildings of Beijing's with a new life. All texts are bilingual Chinese-German.

Lianpu is the Chinese operatic art of painting the face of the actors. Theatrical make-up is a fine art used in performance mainly to enhance the role of character in the story and to express their characteristics.

German language edition. This illustrated book shows beautifully designed unique pieces of Chinese cloth art from the chapters children's hats, stuffed animals, ear pillows, traditional baby bibs, traditional Hebao bags, pillow embroidery, traditional belly bands, ethnic clothing embroidery, popular cross embroidery. Enriched by German-language texts, about 100 examples of traditional Chinese textile work are presented, which are regaining popularity in our time.

This illustrated book presents Chinese folk masks with German-language annotations. The Chinese folk masks look back on a long history. The folk masks are closely related to song and dance in primitive society, witchcraft, totem worship, folk song and dance, and folk operas, and reflect beliefs, customs, life wishes, and ideals of beauty of various ethnic groups in China.

Experience in this illustrated book nearly 100 colorful Chinese New Year pictures with various explanations in German language.

This illustrated book with German annotations mainly presents historical ceramics and porcelain with attractive pictures and various annotations. The following chapters are listed: Pottery in the Neolithic Age, from pottery to porcelain - a major step in the Han dynasty, ceramics and porcelain during the Wei and Jin periods, as well as in the Southern and Northern dynasties, ceramics and porcelain in the Sui and Tang Dynasty, pottery and porcelain in the Song Dynasty, pottery and porcelain in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, pottery and porcelain in the Qing Dynasty, pottery and porcelain in modern times.

This book presents in five categories banner-like paper cuts, paper cutouts as gifts, silhouettes as wedding pictures, silhouettes as embroidery designs and paper cuts as decoration. The approximately 100 artistic illustrations are accompanied by various annotations in German language.

This book about the Chinese paper cutting is a mixture of step-by-step instructions for making Chinese paper cuts with the most popular traditional characters - instruction for Chinese teachers as well as self-learning material for Chinese learners. Most of the instructions are, however, written in Chinese characters only, some with English translation, but the translation is more oriented to the cultural notes. The main target group for this work is more to be seen in Chinese teachers.

This book introduces Chinese calligraphy and ink paiting and helps to create your own work of calligraphy and ink painting.

This book presents with many illustrative examples how Chinese paper-cuts can be made easily yourself. With many pictures that guide step by step and still leave space for individual adjustments. With instructions in Chinese and English, but the illustrations are self-explanatory.

In this volume, Chinese Fine Arts, we take you to a distinguished gallery featuring Chinese fine arts developed over thousands of years. Chinese calligraphy, painting, music, dance, theatre and sculpture are the different mediums used by uninhibited artists to convey both the beautiful and grotesque of Chinese society. From the works of art compiled in this book, you can learn about China’s interactions with her neighbours, political tussles in the Imperial Court and the psyche of the ordinary folk.