"Exploring its extraordinary longevity and its adaptability to social, political and technological change, the first extended history of the picture-scroll, China's pre-eminent aesthetic format of the last two millennia."

The Bookseller

"Lavishly illustrated and lucidly expounded, this is the first book that extols the remarkable potentiality of the handscroll format in Chinese painting. Covering a wide timespan of more than fifteen hundred years, the book demonstrates how the format can foster multiple perspectives and stimulate thoughts on the historiography, materiality, and affective affordances of Chinese painting."

Cheng-hua Wang, Princeton University

“Eruditely written. . . . A welcome addition to the corpus of studies on Chinese painting, written by a scholar deeply immersed in the subject and well able to share his knowledge with the reader in an engaging and lively way.”

Nick Pearce, professor and Richmond Chair of Fine Arts, University of Glasgow