Culture in Common: Wang Yiting's Art of Exchange with Japan

by Walter Davis

Culture in Common explores the transnational history of traditionalist art in modern East Asia through a contextualist account of a Chinese artist's engagement with Japan. Crossing national and disciplinary divides, Walter Davis illuminates how Wang Yiting (1867-1938) mediated Sino-Japanese cooperation in fields to which he contributed importantly--art, business, philanthropy, and religion--adapting traditional forms of expression to projects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004271384
• ISBN13: 9789004271388
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Brill