Chinese painting prior to the 20th cen-tury achieved great success in depic-tions of landscapes. To engage in such a genre,either wholeheartedly or as a dilettant, is anexciting experience.

Specially prepared for the Western reader in-terested in Chinese painting, this manual with250 colour ill ustrations shows how "mountainsand waters" (which are the predominant mo-tifs of Chinese landscape) are painted, withcomparative explanations of Chinese andWestern artists' different approaches.