"Among the first substantial gatherings of visuals of ancient, modern, and contemporary Chinese portraits in various formats and from around the world, this volume provides valuable firsthand visual materials for further study and exploration. . . Recommended."

Choice

"Vinograd’s brilliant Facing China fearlessly renegotiates the challenging territory of the Chinese portrait. Through attentive analysis and compelling readings, he offers a rich new vision of the portrait as agent and interface, one capable of generating human bonds and identities across lineage, community, cultures, and time."

Roberta Wue, associate professor, University of California, Irvine, author of "Art Worlds: Artists, Images, and Audiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai"

“Facing China casts a broader vision across time and space that fully reflects the author’s erudition, traversing boundaries between the historical and the modern/contemporary China and engaging cross-cultural issues beyond China to the global.”

Hui-shu Lee, professor of Chinese art, University of California, Los Angeles, author of "Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China"

"Facing China, drawing on Vinograd’s unsurpassed knowledge of the historical materials as well as his profoundly theoretical and creative approaches, is a brilliant and unprecedented study of portraits in Chinese visual culture."

J. P. Park, June and Simon Li Professor in the History of Art and Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford