This book is one of the most exciting for an initiation and development in Chinese painting .L'iconographie reparquablement is well chosen and very nicely reproduced .TRES didactics, stepper are perfect .The use of acrylic advocated in some case is very wise and full of possibilities. This book avoids any esoteric point of view, that spoil many books of this kind, raising an obstacle for Western lovers .It best book currently available in this category .I say, buy the prmiére in intent, with manual simple - but very helpful - like "Introduction to Sumi-e" or "Chinese painting" in Fleurus .For the Japanese wash, a great book for beginners: the Saxony editions "Japanese ink wash of China. " Essential and also remarkable.
