Dimensions of Originality: Essays on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Theory and Criticism (Essays on Seventeenth-century Chinese Art Theory and Criticism)
Demonstrates that a study of individual key terms can reveal social and cultural values and provides a linear history of the increase in critical use of qi as ""originality"" from the fifth through the seventeenth centuries, exploring what originality looks like in artworks by members of the gentry elite and commoner classes.
