Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis

by Victor H. Mair

In this extraordinary work of scholarship, Victor Mair traces the global development over a thousand years of a genre of popular Buddhist folk literature from China

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Victor Henry Mair (/mɛər/; born March 25, 1943) is an American Sinologist and professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania.