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The book includes both Chinese and Pinyin text, over 500 illustrations (including references to on-line collections), an extensive index in both Chinese and English, a bibliography, and a list of recommended museums and collections to visit with interesting collections of Chinese art. This book includes: an introduction, symbols from nature: plants and flowers; fruits, vegetables, kernels and seeds; minerals; birds, real and imaginary; insects, reptiles, fish and amphibians; animals, real and imaginary; mortal and religious beings: children; male figures, individuals and groups; Buddhist deities and figures; female figures; inanimate objects: borders and other patterns; Chinese characters; colours; numbers; religious images and symbols; and, inanimate objects.
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Patricia Bjaaland Welch, MA, is a former lecturer in Chinese philosophy and art at Boston University, and has been a docent for over two decades in prominent museums in Boston, Bangkok and Singapore. She has written several in-house training manuals for docents and is passionate about bringing people into museums and helping them to appreciate what they are seeing. She is a frequent lecturer on subjects relating to Chinese art and history.
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