"This volume is published on the occasion of the international symposium 'Chinese Art: Modern Expressions' held on May 19, 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The symposium was organized in conjunction with the exhibition Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view at the Museum from January 30 to August 19, 2001."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.