People's Fine Arts Publishing House
Also known as: 人民美術出版社
About the publisher
People's Fine Arts Publishing House focuses on professional art publishing, educational publishing, and lianhuanhua (Chinese picture-story books). Its 429 titles in the catalog span art theory, literary appreciation, and calligraphy rubbings. Representative publications include the Renmei Shupu series, which presents historical rubbings such as the Eastern Han clerical-script steles Li Qi Bei, Cao Quan Bei, and Yi Ying Bei, along with Northern Song Mi Fu's Shu Su Tie and Tiaoxi Shi Tie and Tang Lu Jianzhi's Wen Fu. Qi Baishi's Art of Painting (4 volumes) and Chen Chuanxi's History of Chinese Landscape Painting (2 volumes) reflect its strength in painting research and art-historical compilation. Alongside Wang Guowei's Renjian Cihua, its authors include scholars and artists such as Hua Rende, Sun Xiaoyun, Lou Shibai, and Lou Shude, giving the press a publishing profile that balances calligraphy rubbings, painting art, and art history and theory.
The Most Representative Chinese Stele and Calligraphy Copybook Series: Wang Xun's Boyuan Letter
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
Wang Xun's Boyuan Tie has long been treasured by calligraphers, connoisseurs, and collectors of later ages. The Boyuan Tie is a letter Wang Xun wrote …
The Most Representative Chinese Stele and Calligraphy Copybook Series: Xuanmi Pagoda Stele
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
The full title of the Xuanmi Pagoda Stele is "Stele Inscription and Preface for the Xuanmi Pagoda of the Great Master Dada, Bestowed the Purple Robe, …
An Analysis of Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting Techniques: Step-by-Step Diagrams of Masterpieces Handed Down Through the Dynasties
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
Copying old paintings is an essential step in learning traditional landscape painting. Traditional masterworks' technical breakdowns are beyond the ti…
Expanded Version of the Twin Oars of the Art Boat
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
Guangyizhou Shuangji (Double Oars of the Broad Art Boat), also known as Shujing (Mirror of Calligraphy), is a modern treatise on calligraphy. Written …
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 3: Flowers and Feathered Birds (Chao Xun Copy Edition)
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
Jieziyuan Huazhuan (Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting), Volume 3: Flowers, Grasses, Insects, and Feathers (Chao Xun's Copy Edition) was compiled …
The Most Representative Chinese Stele and Calligraphy Copybook Series: Ritual Vessel Stele
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
The Stele of Ritual Vessels, fully titled The Stele of Ritual Vessels Made for the Confucius Temple by Han Lu Chancellor Han Chi, was erected in the s…
People's Fine Arts Calligraphy Series · Ming, Dong Qichang: Record of Yueyang Tower
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
Sun Xiaoyun, born in 1955 in Nanjing, Jiangsu, is a prominent contemporary calligrapher. She currently serves as vice chair of the China Calligraphers…
The Most Representative Chinese Stele and Calligraphy Copybook Series: Mi Fu's Shusu Tie and Letters
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
The Mi Fu Calligraphy Collection: Shu Su Tie and Letters was created in the third year of the Yuanyou era under Emperor Zhezong of Song (1088 AD), whe…
Renmei Calligraphy Manual: Yuan Zhao Mengfu, Former and Latter Odes on the Red Cliff, Running Script Thousand Character Classic, Heart Sutra, Inscription on a Humble Chamber
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
This book collects Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy of Former and Latter Odes on the Red Cliff, totaling 11 openings and 21 pages, 81 lines, and 935 characte…
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 4: Figures (Chao Xun Copy Edition)
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
Jieziyuan Huazhuan (Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting), Vol. 4: Figures (Chao Xun's Copy) is a textbook that past beginners used to learn the tec…
Yuan Dynasty Zhao Mengfu: Ode on Leisurely Living, Ode on Autumn Thoughts, Ode to the Goddess of the Luo
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322), courtesy name Zi'ang, pseudonyms Songxue Daoren, Shuijinggong Daoren and Oubo, was a celebrated calligrapher and painter of t…
The Painting Trap
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
This book is a work of Chinese painting theory from the Qing dynasty. Huqian (The Painting Bamboo Trap) was printed in the summer of the seventh year …
Northern Song Mi Fu: Twenty-Two Letters
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
This volume collects Mi Fu's Dexin, Liangyuan, Shengzhi, Mianyu, Letter to Boxiu, Jin Paper, Su Family Wang Lue, He Zhu, Danyang, Letter to Bochong, H…
The Most Representative Chinese Stele and Calligraphy Copybook Series: Ode to Shimen
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
The full title of this stele is Ode to Yang Jun of Qianwei, Colonel of the Capital Guards of Han, also known as Ode to Yang Mengwen, Stele of the Ode …
China's Most Representative Stele and Calligraphy Copybook Series · Stele of Zhang Qian
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
This volume reproduces the Stele of Zhang Qian, an important stone inscription of the Eastern Han dynasty. Its full title is Eulogy for the Late Count…
China's Most Representative Stele and Calligraphy Copybook Series · Zhang Xu: Four Ancient Poems
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
This book presents the cursive script "Four Poems of Ancient Times", an ink manuscript, 29.5 cm high and 195.2 cm wide, on five-colored paper, in fort…
China's Most Representative Stele and Rubbing Copying Model Series: Ode to the Western Narrows
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
The Xixia Song was carved in the fourth year of the Jianning era of the Eastern Han (171 CE). Its full title is the Han Wudu Taishou Hanyang Ayang Li …
Tang Li Yong's Stele of Li Sixun: Song Dynasty Rubbing Collected Edition
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
The rubbing reproduced in this book is a Song-dynasty rubbing in the collection of the Mitsui Memorial Museum, Japan, collected by Li Jian during the …
The Most Representative Chinese Stele and Calligraphy Copybook Series: Zhang Menglong Stele
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
The Stele of Zhang Menglong, whose full title is the Stele of Zhang Fujun, Governor of Lu Commandery, Wei, with Pure Praise, was erected in the first …
The Most Representative Chinese Stele and Calligraphy Copybook Series: Collection of Wang Xizhi's Letters
People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026
Wang Xizhi, courtesy name Yishao, was a master calligrapher of the Eastern Jin dynasty. He absorbed the methods of the many schools and formed a style…
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