Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Large quarto in dark blue pictorial jacket; 223 pages: illustrations (some color); 29 cm Near fine(+) in vg(+) jacket now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780824827724, 0824827724
"Elegant Debts uses an unprecedented quantity of primary sources for the writer and painter Wen Zhengming's life and work. It looks at the ways in which social obligation and gift exchange were central to personal and individual identity in the Ming periodContents: Family. 'Friends', masters, patrons. 'Friends', peers, contemporaries. The field of officialdom. 'My Wu', and the obligations of the local. 'Friends', clients, customers. Pupils, helpers, servants. Artists, reputation, commodity.
