Culture in Common
Wang Yiting's Art of Exchange with Japan
Walter Davis(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 5. June 2026
Book
Hardback
978-90-04-27138-8 (ISBN)
Description
Culture in Common explores the transnational history of traditionalist art in modern East Asia through a contextualist account of a Chinese artist's engagement with Japan. Crossing national and disciplinary divides, Walter Davis illuminates how Wang Yiting (1867-1938) mediated Sino-Japanese cooperation in fields to which he contributed importantly-art, business, philanthropy, and religion-adapting traditional forms of expression to projects and concerns of a modern, international milieu.
Grounded in the Japanese archive, Culture in Common expands our understanding of Wang Yiting's oeuvre and artistic practices, reveals origins, accomplishments, promises, and limitations of the cross-cultural exchanges he espoused in an era of increasing international tensions, and draws attention to the historical importance and shifting historiographical fortunes of twentieth-century Sino-Japanese visual culture.
Grounded in the Japanese archive, Culture in Common expands our understanding of Wang Yiting's oeuvre and artistic practices, reveals origins, accomplishments, promises, and limitations of the cross-cultural exchanges he espoused in an era of increasing international tensions, and draws attention to the historical importance and shifting historiographical fortunes of twentieth-century Sino-Japanese visual culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Scholars of modern Chinese and modern Asian art and cultural history
Product notice
With dust jacket
Illustrations
120 farbige Abbildungen
120 Illustrations, color
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-27138-8 (9789004271388)
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Walter B. Davis, Ph.D. (2008), Ohio State University, is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta. His All under Heaven: The Chinese World in Maps, Pictures, and Texts from the Collection of Floyd Sully won an A.L.A. Leab Award.