...Jun Hu Facing China: Truth and Memory in Portraiture . By Richard Vinograd . London : Reaktion Books , 2022 . 334 pp. ISBN: 9781789145328 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Richard Vinograd's new study presents the reader with more than a history of portraiture...

...Jonathan Hay Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600–1900 . By Richard Vinograd . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1992 . xv, 191 pp. $95.00. 208 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Strait surely came from his...

.... BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 209 for the nineteenth century, he focuses on social issues around "the uncertain positions of the modern age." Vinograd's combination of exegetic and symptomatic readings of the portrait as emblem thus points to a historical shift in the contexts for portrait...

... the substantial contributions of all six essays (eight including the discussants). The first panel David Der-wei Wang, Jonathan Hay, and Eugene Y. Wang, with Richard Vinograd as the discussant most explicitly tackles the theoretical (or is it semantic?) question of a Chinese modernity or modernities. The second...

... an explosion of informal portraits, commissioned by or for living people, which offered them an opportunity to engage actively in the construction of self. Richard Vinograd's dense and thoughtful, if at moments cloudy, book is primarily concerned with portraits of the latter type, variously painted...

... calligraphy, but I certainly missed the wildly gestural and textured work of Shi Lu, and it is hard to imagine why the seminal work of Gu Wenda, his "monumental pseudo-characters" of the mid-1980s {Chinese Art and Culture, Robert L. Thorp and Richard Ellis Vinograd [New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001], p. 408...

... in other dynasties. Her discussion concludes with some of the ways that paintings were used to advance political goals, which are not always evident to later viewers. In “Classification, Canon, and Genre,” Richard Vinograd insightfully analyzes the ever-evolving systems for categorizing and evaluating...

... contributed by Richard Vinograd and John Hay, offer interesting counterparts and counterpoints to Cahill's treatments of the same pieces. Comments about the works of Tung's contemporaries and successors were in many cases provided by authorities on these painters; Roderick Whitfield, for instance, wrote...

... to the substantial catalogue entries by Marilyn Wong Gleysteen in volume two. Volume two opens with scholarly catalogue entries that thoroughly document and usually discuss the paintings and calligraphies in the exhibition. The discussions of Tung's paintings, most of which were contributed by Richard Vinograd...

... provide new perspectives. One of these, a landscape with figures, offers insight into the nearly vanished styles of tenth-century landscape paintings and into later styles that can now be recognized as based on them (Vinograd 1981), as well as providing insight into the funerary role of Taoist paradise...

... missed the wildly gestural and textured work of Shi Lu, and it is hard to imagine why the seminal work of Gu Wenda, his "monumental pseudo-characters" of the mid-1980s {Chinese Art and Culture, Robert L. Thorp and Richard Ellis Vinograd [New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001], p. 408), was ignored, even...

... as the decisive conjuncture in late imperial history, and Vinograd's research on the rise in portrait painting suggesting the discovery of the autonomous self (Elman 1990; Vinograd 1992). Related observations on the integration of the Chinese economy and culture can be used to suggest the existence of a nation...

..., Himalayas : Advaita Ashrama . Snow Helen Foster . 1967 . Women in Modern China . Paris : Mouton . Taylor Keith Weller . 1983 . The Birth of Vietnam . Berkeley : University of California Press . Vinograd Richard . 1992 . Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600–1900...

...] TUCKER, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States, 1945-1992 [ALLEN S. WHITING] VINOGRAD, Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600-1900 [JONATHAN HAY] WACHMAN, Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization [JOHN F. COPPER] WELLER. Resistance, Chaos and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese...

... of the University of Michigan. An earlier version of this article was presented in Richard Vinograd's session, "Problems of Genre and Genre Theory in Chinese Pictorial Art" at the 1988 Annual Meeting of the College Art Association in Houston. The author wishes to thank colleagues, referees, and JAS editors...