May 1978
VOLUME 9 - NUMBER 5
Blue and White
Lahore: Versailles of the Punjab
Inland Sea, Japan
Javanese Batik
Archaeology in China
Cover. A “Transition Period” Chinese blue and white porcelain, decorated around the sides with a mandarin beneath a willow tree, an attendant figure, a deer, a lakeside scene and distant mountains. The lid has a dilettante figure. This vase is among those pictured in the definitive book, Chinese Blue & White Porcelain, by Duncan Macintosh, recently published by David & Charles. Chapters of the book appear in this and last month’s issues, in toto, with photographs shown in much smaller sizes than in the book. Courtesy of David & Charles and Duncan Macintosh.
FEATURES
Roots, Hongkong
Tan Kok Seng. A Kwai Lo Party
Ashok Perakumbar. China: the Struggle for Sexurity
Randall B. Johnson. Inland Sea – Peering into a Kind of Shangri-la
Lahore: Pakistan’s Queen City of the Punjab
A. P. Henderson. A House of Mughal, Sikh and Victorian Memories
Duncan Macintosh. Later Blue and White of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Bedrich Forman. Javanese Batik: Tradition and Individual Talent
Genuinely Chinese Sweet and Sour Pork
Alexandra Greeley. The Benign World of Yipintsoi
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
An Archaeological Harvest
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Chinese Jades: Archaic and Modern
NEWS
Discoveries
Cities of Pakistan
VOLUME 9 - NUMBER 5
Blue and White
Lahore: Versailles of the Punjab
Inland Sea, Japan
Javanese Batik
Archaeology in China
Cover. A “Transition Period” Chinese blue and white porcelain, decorated around the sides with a mandarin beneath a willow tree, an attendant figure, a deer, a lakeside scene and distant mountains. The lid has a dilettante figure. This vase is among those pictured in the definitive book, Chinese Blue & White Porcelain, by Duncan Macintosh, recently published by David & Charles. Chapters of the book appear in this and last month’s issues, in toto, with photographs shown in much smaller sizes than in the book. Courtesy of David & Charles and Duncan Macintosh.
FEATURES
Roots, Hongkong
Tan Kok Seng. A Kwai Lo Party
Ashok Perakumbar. China: the Struggle for Sexurity
Randall B. Johnson. Inland Sea – Peering into a Kind of Shangri-la
Lahore: Pakistan’s Queen City of the Punjab
A. P. Henderson. A House of Mughal, Sikh and Victorian Memories
Duncan Macintosh. Later Blue and White of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Bedrich Forman. Javanese Batik: Tradition and Individual Talent
Genuinely Chinese Sweet and Sour Pork
Alexandra Greeley. The Benign World of Yipintsoi
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
An Archaeological Harvest
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Chinese Jades: Archaic and Modern
NEWS
Discoveries
Cities of Pakistan
VOLUME 9 - NUMBER 5
Blue and White
Lahore: Versailles of the Punjab
Inland Sea, Japan
Javanese Batik
Archaeology in China
Cover. A “Transition Period” Chinese blue and white porcelain, decorated around the sides with a mandarin beneath a willow tree, an attendant figure, a deer, a lakeside scene and distant mountains. The lid has a dilettante figure. This vase is among those pictured in the definitive book, Chinese Blue & White Porcelain, by Duncan Macintosh, recently published by David & Charles. Chapters of the book appear in this and last month’s issues, in toto, with photographs shown in much smaller sizes than in the book. Courtesy of David & Charles and Duncan Macintosh.
FEATURES
Roots, Hongkong
Tan Kok Seng. A Kwai Lo Party
Ashok Perakumbar. China: the Struggle for Sexurity
Randall B. Johnson. Inland Sea – Peering into a Kind of Shangri-la
Lahore: Pakistan’s Queen City of the Punjab
A. P. Henderson. A House of Mughal, Sikh and Victorian Memories
Duncan Macintosh. Later Blue and White of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Bedrich Forman. Javanese Batik: Tradition and Individual Talent
Genuinely Chinese Sweet and Sour Pork
Alexandra Greeley. The Benign World of Yipintsoi
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
An Archaeological Harvest
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Chinese Jades: Archaic and Modern
NEWS
Discoveries
Cities of Pakistan