William Watson

Rose Kerr: Later Chinese bronzes. (Victoria and Albert Museum, Far Eastern Series.) 115 pp. London: Bamboo Publishing Ltd [and] the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990. £28.95.

G. ST. G. M. Gompertz: Chinese celadon wares . (Second edition, revised, expanded and reset.) (Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain.) 216 pp., 8 plates. London: Faber and Faber, 1980. £17.50.

Jessica Rawson: Ancient China: art and archaeology. 240 pp., front. London: British Museum Publications, 1980. £8.95.

James Cahill: Parting at the shore: Chinese painting of the early and middle Ming dynasty 1368–1580 . New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 281 pp., 106 plates. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1978.

David L. Snellgrove (ed.): The image of the Buddha . 482 pp. London: Serindia Publications/UNESCO, 1978. £25.

Herbert Franke (ed.): Sung biographies: painters . (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 17.) viii, 158 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1976. DM 24.

Takaaki Matsushita: Ink painting. Translated and adapted… by Martin Collcutt . (Arts of Japan, 7.) 143 pp. New York: Weatherhill; Tokyo: Shibundo, 1974. (Distributed in G.B. by Phaidon Press. £4.50.)

Seiichi Mizuno: Asuka Buddhist art: Horyu-ji . Translated by Richard L. Gage. (The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, Vol. 4.) 172 pp. New York: Weatherhill; Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1974. (Distributed in G.B. by Phaidon Press. £5.25.)

Chu-Tsing Li: A thousand peaks and myriad ravines: Chinese paintings in the Charles A. Drenowatz collection . ( Artibus Asiae , Supplementum xxx.) 2 vols.: [i], xi, 319 pp.; [vi] pp., 109 plates, 2 maps. Ascona: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1974. Sw. fr. 156.

Ping-Ti Ho: The cradle of the East: an inquiry into the indigenous origins of techniques and ideas of Neolithic and early historic China, 5000–1000 b.c . xxi, 440 pp., 2 plates. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong; New York, London: University of Chicago Press, 1975.