Source #15

1. http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/painting/4ptgintr.htm
2. Patricia Buckley Ebrey
3. AB University of Chicago 1968, MA Columbia University 1970, PhD Columbia University 1975
4. Wall paintings were produced in great numbers in the early period of China's history. Paintings were also often done on screens, which served in a sense as portable walls, but these too have not survived. From the Song dynasty onwards, paintings in a variety of other more portable formats, such as the hanging scroll and the handscroll, were collected and passed on to later generations in significant quantities. In their details of everyday life and social customs, these paintings often provide information unavailable from written texts. Painting as an art form also reached a very high standard of quality during the Song , which is considered by many to be a high point in the development of the fine arts in China. Landscape themes began to dominate painting during this period, and would continue to be a favorite subject of artists up into the modern period.
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6. She is a professor of history at Univeristy of Washington