Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting

“Yi Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of Chinese visual modernity… After reading Yi Gu’s book…we have a clearer and fresher view of open-air paintings in China and how they have reflected social, political, and cultural changes from the very beginning of open-air painting since 1910.”—Xiaoxiao Li, Chinese Historical Review

“[A] penetrating study of 20th-century Chinese landscape painting.”—Choice