Preface
Pheebus 6, in two issues, publishes in revised form the papers from the
international symposium held at the Phoenix Art Museum, 3-5 October 1985, in conjunction with the exhibition, The Elegant Brush: Chinese
Painting under the Qianlong Em peror, 1735 - 1795. Together with the
exhibition catalog, these form a trilogy which serves to investigate
painting in eighteent h-cent ury China. Pheebus 6, Number 2 provides
an index to all three volumes .
Pheebus 6, Number I presents general perspectives on the Qianlong era
as a whole and afterwards shifts its focus onto the court in Beijing and
its sponsorship of painters and paintings . Pheebus 6, Number 2, in turn,
examines those artistic phenomena beyond the walls of the capital,
with a justifiable concentration on Yangzhou in its heyday. This is
followed by a brief glimpse of an evolving painting tradition in
Guangdong and an analysis of the eightee nth-cent ury foundations of
post-Qianlong painting.

Funding for the present volume is provided by the School of Art,
Arizona State University, which regularly publishes Pheebus: A Journal
of Art History. Additional support was received from the Asian Arts
Council of the Phoenix Art Museum. The 1985 symposium was
sponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council in conjunction with the
National Endowment for the Humanities, and further supported by
the Flinn Foundation and by Mr and Mrs Roy Papp. Grateful acknow ledgment is extended to the Flinn Foundation for its contribution of
major funding for the exhibition, and to the J. Paul Getty Trust and
AT&T for their generous support of the exhibition catalog. To those
who contributed to and participated in the symposium, the editors
wish to make known their sincere gratitude and appreciation.

A Note on Rom ani zation

Romanization of Chinese characters in Phoebus 6, will adhere to the
pinyin system, with the following exceptions:
Anglicized words which are a lready a part of the normal Engl ish vocabulary
and are not easily substituted, e.g. Yangtze.
Terms and names in titles of publications using different systems of
romanizat ion, e.g. The Literary Inquisition of Ch' ien-lung (not Qianlong).
Self-chosen names of modern Chinese scholars in the West, familiar
through previous publications, e.g. Yu Yi ng-shih (not Yu Yingshi) and Wen
Fong (not Fang Wen).
Place names outside of mainland Ch in a, the usage of which is accepted
internationally, e.g. Hong Kong (not Xianggang) and Taipei (not Taibei) .