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Two books, four editions. 李湘作品集

Name: Dream of the Red Chamber: Four Hundred and Thirteen Characters, Painted
Price: 120 USD
Availability: InStock

Every title is published in English and in Chinese. Switch the language on any book below to see that edition’s cover, specifications and availability.

Chinese Empresses

中国历代皇后

Two hundred and seventeen women, from the Western Han to the fall of the Qing, painted in mineral and plant pigments on silk over twelve years — and set beside the histories that name them. The second edition restores a whole imperial reign, corrects 437 entries and cites 731 sources.

Extent: 364 pages
Plates: 101
Trim: 10 × 12 in

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Paintings by Xiang Li 李湘 · Written and edited by Fei Wu 吴菲

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Dream of the Red Chamber

红楼四百人物全赏

Cao Xueqin named more than four hundred people and let most of them disappear into the crowd. Xiang Li painted 413 of them — one face each, matriarch and scullery maid alike — and this book gives every one a page, an inscription and a name. The title is in the hand of Wu Shanmao 吴善茂.

Portraits: 413
Extent: 264 pages
Trim: 10 × 12 in

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Paintings by Xiang Li 李湘 · Title calligraphy by Shanmao Wu 吴善茂 · Edited by Fei Wu 吴菲

Browse the paintings themselves — Dream of the Red Chamber

In the works

A mother and a daughter 母女合作

The book about the partnership itself — how a painter in Beijing and a writer in Boston made three volumes together across twelve time zones. Title and date to come.

Signed copies, bulk orders and museum pricing are on each book’s page.

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