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Valerie Hansen

The Beijing Qingming Scroll and Its Significance for the Study of Chinese History

This is a black-and-white reproduction of the Beijing Qingming Scroll with an introductory essay touching on: the handscroll format, urban life in twelfth-century China, the scoll's artist, the title of the scroll, and the city in the scroll. It is a pamphlet with an introduction, captions, and further reading list.

Please read the short introductory essay, then click on the images below for larger PDF versions of them. Then read the accompanying text for each image.

Albany, New York: Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, 1996.

 

All files below are in PDF format. Some are quite large.
View the scroll from right to left, top to bottom, as in original.


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