| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Jonathan Hay. Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China. (RES Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 412.

Should the term "early modern" be applied to seventeenth and eighteenth-century China? Those who would say yes have claimed various kinds of connections with European modernity: an entangled global history that encompassed both; comparable stages (experienced at different paces) that lead to the present; or parallel developments that appear retrospectively similar. The latter possibility is explored by Jonathan Hay in this wonderful contribution to Chinese cultural history. Hay has transformed his dissertation into a comprehensive and fascinating history of the artist Shitao (1642–1707). A major painter and calligrapher of great versatility and intensity, Shitao merits the attention of historians everywhere. . . .

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