Biographies of Characters in Water Margin with Illustrations(Chinese-English) (Chinese Edition)

Biographies of Characters in Water Margin with Illustrations(Chinese-English)includes 108 traditional line drawing tapestry portraits of Characters in Outlaws of the March by Sunshi in the early Qing Dynasty and 108 graphic fine brushworks by Zhanglin in Qing Dynasty. The life of Sunshi and Zhang Lin is little known, what is known from the preface of Sun Yuanben is that Sunshi was from Jingkou and was born in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. The characters portrayed by Sunshi, is fine, smooth and fluent in line and true to life, which can equal with the Leaves of Outlaws of the March by Chen Zhanghou. Zhang Lin's color graph is vivid in expression and well-distributed in color, which tops on the character portraits of ancient graph line brushwork.