Painters of the Great Ming

Painters of the Great Ming is the most thorough western language book on the Ming painting academy and the Zhe School. For Northern Song court art, see Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Accumulating Culture: the Collections of Emperor Huizong (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008) N5285 .C52 S664 2008. For Southern Song, see Hui-shu Li’s Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010) N5205.7 .C6 L5 2010. For Yuan, see Annie Jing’s article, “The Portrait of Khubilai Khan and Chabi by Anige (1245-1306), A Nepali Artist at the Yuan Court,” Artibus Asiae 54, no. 1/2 (1994): 40-86 N8 .A75. For students interested in Chinese animal paintings, Hou-mei Sung specializes on animal paintings commissioned by the Ming court and their implications in Decoded Messages: The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009) ND1383 .C6 S88 2009 F.