Emperors' treasures : Chinese art from the National Palace Museum, Taipei / edited by Jay Xu and He Li ; with contributions by Jay Xu, Fung Ming-chu, Ho Chuan-hsin, Alfreda Murck, Tianlong Jiao, He Li, and curators from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
"North Clarendon, VT : Distributed by Tuttle Publishing (North America, Latin America & Europe)”

“Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, co-organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and held at the Asian Art Museum, June 17-September 18, 2016, and at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 23, 2016-January 22, 2017. (Verso of title page)”

“All catalogue entries were contributed in Chinese by authors from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and translated into English by a team of researchers and scholars from the United States"--Authors and translators, page 243.

"Emperors' Treasures features artworks from the renowned National Palace Museum, Taipei. It encompasses paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, lacquer ware, jades, and textiles exemplifying the finest craftsmanship and imperial taste. The Chinese art book book explores the identities of eight Chinese rulers--seven emperors and one empress--who reigned from the early 12th through early 20th centuries. They are portrayed in a story line that highlights artworks of their eras, from the dignified Song to the coarse yet subtle Yuan, and from the brilliant Ming until the final, dazzling Qing period. Emperors' Treasures examines each ruler's distinct contribution to the arts and how each developed his or her aesthetic and connoisseurship"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-248) and index.

Chronology of dynastic China -- Emperors of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties -- Imperial art collections and transitions in China / Ho Chuan-hsin -- Exceptional emperors : the antiquities collections of Huizong and Qianlong / Tianlong Jiao -- A millennium of imperial collecting and patronage / Alfreda Murck -- Catalogue of the exhibition. Song Dynasty (960-1279) : a great patron leads China's renaissance / He Li ; Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) : Mongol rule captures a rustic aesthetic / He Li ; Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) : rulers restore a bright (Ming) culture / He Li ; Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) : Manchu emperors and an empress attain extravagant art / He Li -- Authors and translators.

"故宮博物院的典藏中, 以明、清琺瑯器最為絢麗. 本光碟藉由動態畫面敘述琺瑯製件過程及源流, 以及琺瑯器在古今生活的應用, 讓使用者對於琺瑯的製作和歷史源流有一個整體性的了解. 並以虛擬實境的方式呈現紫禁城中多處宮殿的實景, 以及琺瑯器在古代宮廷中的陳設方式. 另外針對精選的163件明清琺瑯器作深入淺出的介紹, 並且對琺瑯工藝中所使用的專有台詞作詳實的解釋. 此外並以琺瑯器為主題設計了「格格招親」與「格格慶壽」等兩個遊戲, 寓教於樂. 是鑑賞故宮琺瑯器的最佳入門光碟.--Case insert.

故宮圖像選萃 = Masterpieces of Chinese portrait painting in the National Palace Museum.
At head of colophon title: 中華民國國立故宮博物院藏品.
Colophon inserted.
Chinese, English, and Japanese.

"Dedicated to Chia-Yu Wu (伍家宥 1897 - 1983) Chinese Scholar and Legislator of Taiwan 1946 - 1983"
"Donated by Professor and Mrs. F. Y. Wu (伍法岳, 張青芝)"

Possessing the past : treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei / Wen C. Fong, James C.Y. Watt ; with contributions by Richard M. Barnhart [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 610-624) and index.

Title device: 中華瑰寶.

目錄  · · · · · · 大洋彼岸的“玉”華天寶 -- 加拿大皇家安大略博物館藏中國玉器觀感 -- 館藏中國古代玉器選粹 -- 新石器時代 -- 商周時期 -- 春秋戰國時期 -- 漢魏晉南北朝時期 -- 隋唐宋遼金元時期 -- 明代 -- 清代 -- 館藏中國古代玉器概覽 -- 捐贈者名單.

The National Palace Museum : a history of the collection / Chang Lin-sheng -- Chinese art and cross-cultural understanding / Wen C. Fong -- Jade ; The Bronze Age and the first empires / James C.Y. Watt -- The imperial cult ; Some cultural prototypes ; Monumental landscape painting ; Sung imperial portraits ; The scholar-official as artist / Wen C. Fong -- The Imperial Painting Academy / James Cahill -- Some Buddhist images / Wai-kam Ho and Wen C. Fong -- Antiquarianism and naturalism / James C.Y. Watt -- The orthodox lineage of Tao / Wen C. Fong -- Imperial portraits of the Yüan Court / Wen C. Fong and Maxwell K. Hearn -- Reunification and revival ; The artist as hero / Maxwell K. Hearn -- Imperial portraiture of the Ming Dynasty / Wen C. Fong -- The return of the academy / Richard M. Barnhart -- The literati artists of the Ming dynasty ; The expanding literati culture ; Creating a synthesis / Wen C. Fong -- Official art and commercial art / James C.Y. Watt -- The orthodox school of painting ; The individualist masters / Wen C. Fong -- The antique-elegant / James C.Y. Watt -- Imperial patronage of the arts under the Ch'ing / Wen C. Fong.

Only two major exhibitions from the fabled Chinese Palace Museum collections have been seen in the West - the first in London in 1935-36 and the second in the United States in 1961-62. These two exhibitions provided an extraordinary stimulus to the study of Chinese culture, revolutionized Asian art studies in the West, and opened the eyes of the public to the artistic traditions of Chinese civilization. Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei is the publication that accompanies the third great exhibition of Chinese masterworks to travel to the West. Written by scholars of both Chinese and Western cultural backgrounds and conceived as a cultural history, the book tells the story of Chinese art from its foundations in the Bronze Age and the first empires through the rich diversity of art produced during the Sung, Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, contrasting China's absolutist political structure with the humanism of its artistic and moral philosophy. Synthesizing scholarship of the past three decades, the authors present not only the historical and cultural significance of individual works of art and analyses of their aesthetic content, but a reevaluation of the cultural dynamics of Chinese history, reflecting a fundamental shift in the study of Chinese art from a focus on documentation and connoisseurship to an emphasis on the cultural significance of the visual arts. National treasures passed down from dynasty to dynasty, the works of art that now form the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, originally constituted the personal collection of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, who ruled China from 1736 to 1795. Two centuries after Ch'ien-lung ascended the dragon throne, when the Japanese invaded China in 1937, the nearly 10,000 masterworks of painting and calligraphy and more than 600,000 objects and rare books and documents - which had earlier been moved from Peking to Nanking following the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931 - were packed in crates and evacuated to caves near the wartime capital, Chungking. It was not until after World War II that the crated treasures were moved to their present home in Taiwan, where today they represent a major portion of China's artistic and cultural legacy.

Qianlong huangdi de wenhua daye 乾隆皇帝的文化大業 = Emperor Ch’ien-lung’s grand cultural enterprise / [Feng Mingzhu zhubian 馮明珠主編].
Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 2002.
Preface and captions also in English.
Bibliography: p. [296-300].
“乾隆皇帝文化大業年表”: p. 301-303.
***Graphic resource.

This CD-ROM is based on the early Qing dynasty studio-reproduction (yuanben 院本) of a full-color handscroll held at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, depicting the city of Bianjing during the Qingming festival. (NOT the earlier, Song-era monochrome scroll attributed to Zhang Zeduan 張擇端).
" ... Painted for the young Qianlong Emperor in 1736, "A City of Cathay" is an 11-meter handscroll by artists of the Qing court. It depicts a captivating vision of urban life centuries earlier in the Northern Song capital (modern Kaifeng), on the day of the springtime Qingming festival" (from vendor). Review at: The Cultural Cafe

Splendors of Imperial China : ǂb treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei /  Maxwell K. Hearn.

Exhibition catalog.
Jointly published: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Taipei : National Palace Museum ; New York : Rizzoli International Publications, 1996.

The Cultural Heritage -- The Sung Dynasty: A New Cultural Universe -- The Yuan Dynasty: Under Mongol Rule -- The Ming Dynasty: Empire of Restoration -- The Ch'ing Dynasty: A New Orthodoxy.

The collection of the National Palace Museum is made up largely of the personal holdings of the Ch'ien-lung emperor (reigned 1736-95). Representing the artistic legacy of imperial China, it offers an unsurpassed view of Chinese civilization. The objects lavishly illustrated and described in this book, which include magnificent ritual bronzes, precious jades, monumental landscape paintings, and exquisite ceramics, are among the finest ever created. Published to accompany the exhibition "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei," the book takes the reader through the most significant periods of Chinese culture: its foundations in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, its flowering in the sophisticated world of the Sung dynasty, its exuberance during the Ming, and its technical brilliance under the Manchus. The author makes the unique beauty of this art accessible through comparisons of selected works and through discussion of their historical context.

c.2 in Luce display

Xin shijian : Lang Shining yu Qinggong Xiyangfeng 新視界 : 郎世寧與清宮西洋風 = New Visions at the Ch’ing court : Giuseppe Castiglione and Western-style trends / zhubian Wang Yaoting 主編王耀庭. [陳韻如文字撰述 ; 蒲思棠 (Donald Brix)英譯].
Bibliography: p.138-139.
民國96 [2007]. ***Graphic resource.
See exhibit website for more details.