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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter si
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. NOTE TO READERS xiii
5. CHRONOLOGY OF CHINESE DYNASTIES AND POLITICAL PERIODS xv
6. INTRODUCTION A New Vision of Painting 1
7. ONE Painted Walls and Pictorial Illusions TWO The Study of Vision 25
8. TWO The Study of Vision 59
9. THREE Contemplating the Future 103
10. FOUR Peacocks and Cave- Heavens 143
11. FIVE Staging Europe 179
12. SIX The Beauty in the Garden 221
13. EPILOGUE Illusions, Imperial and Otherwise 271
14. APPENDIX Chinese Texts 279
15. NOTES 289
16. GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 325
17. BIBLIOGRAPHY 335
18. INDEX 367