Preface 4
Preface to the first english editio 6
Introduction: China’s 20th-Century 10
Narrative
Chapter 1
the Influence of Western Civilization and the adjustment of traditional thinking 26
Background: Developments in the Late Ming and Subsequent Years 28
China Trade Painting 29
The Influence of Western Painter 30
Dianshi Studio Illustrated 33
Tushanwan and its Influenc 36
The Adjustment of Traditional Thought 41
Early Overseas Students during the Reforms 44
Chapter 2
the Shanghai School and its Painters 48
New Discoveries within the Tradition 50
Painting Societies and the Market 52
The Shanghai School 54
Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, and Wang Yiting 60
The Significance of the Shanghai School 66
Chapter 3
the fine arts revolution 68
Cai Yuanpei’s Thinking on Art 70
The Emergence of ‘Fine Arts’ 74
Chen Duxiu 77
Unfolding Ideas on Fine Arts 80
Chapter 4
the origins and Intellectual Background of Chinese-Style Painting
The Background of Chinese-Style Painting (Zhongguo-hua) 84
Fine Arts Historiography and Japanese Influenc 88
Traditionalists 89
Chen Shizeng 92
Background Intellectual Fashions 94
Chapter 5
National Painting and New National Painting 100
The Question of Tradition 102
Huang Binhong 102
Qi Baishi 107
Zhang Daqian 110
Other Traditionalist Painters 114
Traditionalist Thought, Politics, and Related Ideology 116
New Guohua Painting: The Lingnan School 123
Chapter 6
Modern fine arts Education 134
The Basic Background of Art Education 136
Schools 138
Associations 144
Chapter 7
realism and artists 148
The 1929 National Art Exhibition 150
Xu Beihong 152
Painters 156
Sculptors 160
Chapter 8
Modernist art, Intellectual trends, and Encounters 162
A Poet’s Perspective 164
Liu Haisu 164
Yan Wenliang 168
Modernist Painters 172
Painters Studying in Japan 173
Taiwanese Painters Studying in Japan 177
Pang Xunqin and the Storm Society 182
China Independent Art Association 188
Modern Artistic Ideas 190
Lin Fengmian 192
The Decline of Modernism 196
Chapter 9
Left-Wing fine arts 202
Groups, the Woodcut Study Society and the Left-Wing League of Artists 204
Lu Xun’s Work 214
Woodcut Groups 217
Chapter 10
the art of Yan’an and talks at the Yan’an forum on Literature and art 222
The Art of Yan’an 224
Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art 244
Chapter 11
art in Kuomintang-ruled areas 256
Cartoons and Cartoonists 258
The Third Department and the New Woodcut Organizations 262
Disputes about National Forms and the Transition in Wartime 266
Painters and Sculptors 270
Painters in the Praxis of National Forms 273
Other Painters 279
Art of the Civil War Period 281
Chapter 12
art in the Period of Social recovery and Construction 292
The Fine Arts in the Process of Constructing a New System 294
The Fine Arts Movement of the Worker-Peasant-Soldier Masses 306
New Pictures for the New Year (New Nianhua), Picture Storybooks and Prints 308
Chapter 13
the transformation of Chinese-Style Painting and Guohua Painters 316
Crisis and Transformation in Chinese-Style Painting 318
The Path of Transformation 325
Fu Baoshi 335
Qian Songyan 339
Guan Shanyue 342
Li Keran 346
Shi Lu 347
Pan Tianshou 351