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Welcome to my new website, which has been redesigned to better accommodate, and make accessible to all colleagues, students, and enthusiasts for Chinese and Japanese art, a diversity of materials: unpublished writings of mine, collections of images, and—newly added—the products of my recent major project, a series of video-recorded lectures titled A Pure and Remote View: Visualizing Early Chinese Landscape Painting. These last will be posted for free viewing on the website of the Institute of East Asian Studies at U.C. Berkeley, but can be accessed also through this website. I will be adding lecture notes (“handouts”) for these and other related materials. The lectures will eventually be made available also, through the IEAS, on sets of disks for higher-resolution imagery and easier viewing.

Familiar from the old website, and still on this one, is the series titled Responses and Reminiscences, made up of essays on many topics, mostly drawing on experiences from my long career; and the series CLP (Cahill Lectures and Papers), as well as the long file titled CYCTIE or Ching Yuan Chai Treasury of Imperishable Ephemera, a collection of my non-scholarly writings, including a lot of comic verses and song lyrics composed for Faculty Club Christmas parties and other academic occasions, writings from my early years, and a Shakespearean fragment (recommended) titled Hamlet At Wittenberg. My Bibliography and Short C.V., updated, are still here, and the means of contacting me, as well as my file of blogs, which I promise to add to more frequently than I have in the past.