Anne de Coursey Clapp is professor emerita of Wellesley College, where she taught East and Southeast Asian art history in the Art Department for more than three decades, retiring in 1999. She is the author of monographs on the Ming dynasty artists Wen Zhengming and Tang Yin.

"A detailed and insightful essay on a type of occasional painting popular in later China... In addition to its erudition, this book is a most enjoyable read."--Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

• Foreword 7 Preface and Acknowledgments 9 List of Illustrations 11 Chapter One 15 Early Commemorative Landscape in the Song Dynasty Chapter Two 41 Conspicuous Seclusion Chapter Three 79 What's in a Name? The Biehao Painting Notes 111 Selected Bibliography 117 Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms 125 Index 131

Anne de Coursey Clapp is professor emerita of Wellesley College, where she taught East and Southeast Asian art history in the Art Department for more than three decades, retiring in 1999. She is the author of monographs on the Ming dynasty artists Wen Zhengming and Tang Yin.

"A detailed and insightful essay on a type of occasional painting popular in later China... In addition to its erudition, this book is a most enjoyable read."--Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

• Foreword 7 Preface and Acknowledgments 9 List of Illustrations 11 Chapter One 15 Early Commemorative Landscape in the Song Dynasty Chapter Two 41 Conspicuous Seclusion Chapter Three 79 What's in a Name? The Biehao Painting Notes 111 Selected Bibliography 117 Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms 125 Index 131

Anne de Coursey Clapp is professor emerita of Wellesley College, where she taught East and Southeast Asian art history in the Art Department for more than three decades, retiring in 1999. She is the author of monographs on the Ming dynasty artists Wen Zhengming and Tang Yin.

"A detailed and insightful essay on a type of occasional painting popular in later China... In addition to its erudition, this book is a most enjoyable read."--Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

• Foreword 7 Preface and Acknowledgments 9 List of Illustrations 11 Chapter One 15 Early Commemorative Landscape in the Song Dynasty Chapter Two 41 Conspicuous Seclusion Chapter Three 79 What's in a Name? The Biehao Painting Notes 111 Selected Bibliography 117 Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms 125 Index 131