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“Gibbon paintings in China, Japan, and Korea: Historical distribution, production rate, and context”

“Gibbon paintings in China, Japan, and Korea: Historical distribution, production rate, and context” by Thomas Geissmann, Anthropological Institute, University Zürich-Irchel “The  gibbons’  role  in  Chinese  art  and  literature  was so important, that the genre also spread to Japan and Korea, although neither country ever belonged to the  gibbons’  habitat.  The  history  of  gibbon  paintings  has…

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