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

By (author) Cheng-hua Wang

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Qingming shanghe (Up the River during Qingming), dubbed Chinaâ€™s Mona Lisa, is a painting whose primordial version is attributed to Zhang Zeduan, a painter who lived during the Northern Song dynasty (960â€“1127). It is so revered that to this day there exist more than one hundred handscroll paintings with this title, including the original and later versions produced during the late Ming through the High Qing. Up the River of Time is the first study in any language to treat the entire cultural constellation of Qingming shanghe as a painting tradition. Cheng-hua Wang investigates how the original Northern Song versionâ€”deemed a classic in art-historical researchâ€”and its later iterations shaped the norms of painting, triggered cultural associations, fostered the genre of cityscapes, and redefined the meanings of â€œreproductionâ€ and â€œforgery.â€ By studying the thematic links between the paintingâ€™s various versions and tracing their development over several centuries, Wang leads us to revisit Chinaâ€™s painting history. Such a focus that pivots toward broad considerations of thematic and cultural significance prompts a reassessment of what defines artistic value. Over time, Qingming shanghe catalyzed a new artistic culture in China.

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