A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow. By Ginger Chengchi Hsü. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 314. $49.50.
本书是首部英文专著，研究十八世纪扬州绘画市场，揭示这座以财富和文化闻名的城市中艺术与社会的互动，对艺术史和中国历史研究者有参考价值。
Art historians have produced some of the most interesting historical works on China, bringing to the study of the past an immediacy of insight that can elude the historian who works only with texts. Ginger Hsü has provided such an insight into eighteenth-century Yangchow [Yangzhou], a city renowned at the time for its wealth, beauty, and cultural productivity, and now frequently cited as the exemplary site of social change in Ch'ing China. Although Yangchow is as closely associated with painting in China as are Venice and Florence in Europe, Hsü's is the first monograph-length study of Yangchow painting to have been published in English.