A story of ruins. Presence and absence in Chinese art and visual culture

by Wu Hung

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012 . First edition, 4to, pp. 292; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. Leading scholar of Chinese art Wu Hung shows how the story of ruins in China is different from but connected to ruin culture in

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