From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in almost daily - and increasingly intimate - contact with Mao and his inner circle. For most of these years, Mao's…
Written by the author who is a painter and theatre artist, this book explores his Japanese American identity through a stylistic combination of twentieth-century American pop art and traditional eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock…
Identifies more than 2,500 designs of various formats and themes and demonstrates that Isoda Koryusai broadened the treatment of traditional print subjects. This book assesses Koryusai's significance from the perspective of consumer culture. It is…
Shukke to Sono Deshi published in 1918 is the story religion and love as told through the lives of Shinran Shonin and his disciples. Shinran (1173-1262) was the founder of the Shin sect of Buddhism
