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Hardcover. Light blue cloth over boards with black lettering and b&w and color illustration; v, 235 pp.; 22 unnumbered pages of plates; richly illustrated. Scarce. Prior to this study and annotated translation by Diana Chou, an Anglophone's introduction to the person and work of Tang Hou would likely have been Susan Bush and Hsio-yen Shih's Early Chinese Texts on Painting (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985). In that anthology, portions of Tang's writings were excerpted and arranged thematically under headings such as "On Artists' Styles" or "On Mounting and Collecting." One of the significant contributions of Chou's book is a complete translation. Here, in straightforward prose, we receive Tang's slightly smug but well-intentioned instructions on how to become a superior judge of painting. We may also now appreciate in English Tang's quicksilver non sequiturs: he follows a discussion of the visible qualities of naturally aged brocade as a clue to determining a painting's date with the simile, "Looking at a painting is like looking at a beauty. Her manner, fortitude, and character must exist beyond her body" (102). Besides rendering his treatise in toto, Chou corrects longstanding errors concerning Tang's dates of activity and the dating of Huajian, and she argues that the true impact of his Huajian has not been recognized. Chou's book consists of three parts: a set of three introductory essays, a heavily annotated translation, and five appendices. In chapter 1, "Biographies of Tang Hou and His Father, Tang Binglong," Chou locates her subjects primarily in the artistic milieu of Hangzhou in the early Yuan dynasty (12791368). Here we learn that Tang Hou may have acquired his interest in art from his father, Tang Binglong (b. 1241). Furthermore, Tang Binglong's felicitous appointment as associate superior prefect in Hangzhou between the late 1280s and early 1290s likely permitted his son's entrée to an important circle of collectors and artists that included Zhou Mi (12321308) and Zhao Mengfu (12541322). On the basis of internal evidence and biography, Chou argues that much of Huajian was composed during Tang's early residence in Hangzhou. In the opening years of the fourteenth century, Tang moved to Shaoxing to serve as rector of the Lanting Academy before taking an appointment at the Yuan capital, Dadu. He died before 1317 while serving in that office. Based on her research, Chou amends the years of Tang's lifetime to ca. 1250s1310s, as clearly noted after the book's opening epigrams (the Library of Congress cataloguing entry on the copyright page still uses fl. 1322, however). Chou could have been more precise. Tang Binglong could have been a youthful father at nineteen, but that he was so at age nine or ten strains the imagination. While the precise year of Tang's birth remains debatable, his death before 1317 argues strongly against dating Huajian to the 1320s or 1330s. It seems reasonable to regard Huajian as a product of the late 1280s and early 1290s, or the early Yuan dynasty. In chapter 2, Chou tackles the confusing and more arcane subject of different editions of Huajian and the preface that sometimes accompanies it, before discussing Tang's intended audience. Chou succinctly presents persuasive evidence for accepting the Huajian as a complete work comprising two parts, an essay and a catalogue, in that order, and for dismissing the preface's content as fictitious and the source of the longstanding misdating of Huajian. By contrast, the discussion of the latter topic of more general interest is not so directly illuminating. Chou first claims that Huajian "seems to have been written for, and circulated among, this group of Hangzhou collectors during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries" (3334). Later, she suggests that it may have served as educational material for Tang's students at the Lanting Academy (46). Finally, she proposes that Huajian functioned as a "guidebook to Hangzhou area collections f.…

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