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Dalai Lama XIV. Tibet, The Sacred Realm: Photographs 1880-1950. Gordonsville: Aperture Foundation, 1997.
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Harmony and Contrast: A Journey Through East Asian Art. (ed. Wilkinson, Jane.). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996.
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Xudong, Zhang. Chinese modernism in the era of reforms: cultural fever, avant-garde fiction and the new Chinese cinema. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.
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Yang, Hsin; Barnhart, Richard; Cahill, James; Wu Hung; Yang Xin; Nie, Chongzheng; Lang, Shaojun. Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. Culture and Civilization of China Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
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Zhang, Yiguo. Brushed voices: Calligraphy in contemporary China. New York: Columbia University, The Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, 1999.
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