The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court Books it is everything that happens

it is everything that happens to you

If you earnestly choose to do all five of these things

" - Lee Child "Only a clairvoyant could anticipate the book's ending" - New York Times With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train and Into the Water

It is among the first feminist works to treat maternal experience as theologically productive

pregnant and trapped in a marriage to an abusive husband

The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court Books it is everything that happensInk landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and painters of this era produced some of the most celebrated artworks in Chinese history. The Efficacious Landscape addresses how landmark works of this pivotal period first came to be identified as potent symbols of imperial authority and later became objects through which exiled scholars expressed disaffection and dissent. In fulfilling these diverse roles, landscape demonstrated