Three thousand years of chinese painting is the inaugural volume in a new series the culture civilization of china a joint publishing venture of yale university press and the american council of learned societies with the china international publishing group in beijing the undertaking will ultimately result in the publication of more than seventy five volumes on the visual arts classical literature language and philosophy as well as several comprehensive reference volumes. Three thousand years of chinese painting is the inaugural volume in a new series the culture civilization of china a joint publishing venture of yale university press and the american council of learned societies with the china international publishing group in beijing the undertaking will ultimately result in the publication of more than seventy five volumes on the visual arts classical literature language and philosophy as well as several comprehensive reference volumes. Three thousand years of chinese painting culture and civilization of china amazonde barnhart richard m hung wu yang xin fremdsprachige bucher. Three thousand years of chinese painting started in 1990and taking seven years to complete contains 330 illustrations and more than 300000 words written by six eminent specialists from the us and china the book spans over 3000 years and focuses primarily on the origins of chinese paintings genres and artists