MONG01 Monnet, Nathalie ed: LE GENGZHITU: LE LIVRE DU RIZ ET DE LA SOIE. Poemes de l'Empereur Kangxi; peintures sur soie de Jiao Bingzhen. Paris, 2003. 71 pp. [57] pp. of plates: col. ill. 37x28 cm. Cloth. GBP 45.00 Highly interesting reproduction of a painted album by the Qing court artist, Jiao Bingzhen. The album contains 46 paintings - 23 of rice growing and 23 of sericulture. It apparently formed the basis for the 1696 Kangxi woodcut edition of the Gengzhi Tu. Traduit du chinois par Bernard Fuhrer; preface du Pierre-Jean Remy. In French. Subjects: Illustrated Books Can be ordered in, as of: 03/07/2008 Was item 224 in printed List 140. Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com.