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Chinese paintings from the Kingdom of Min: Fujian 福建省 (Min 闽)

General reading

Fujian : A coastal province in transition and transformation. ed. Y.M. Yeung and David K.Y. Chu., Chinese Univ. Press, 2000.
Fujian : Gateway to taiwan. ed. Brian Hook. Oxford Univ. Press, 1996.
Fujian : Mountain and maritime cultures. Foreign Languages Press, 2006.
Fujian Courtauld, Caroline. Passport Books, 1988.
Southern fujian : Reproduction of traditions in post-mao china. ed. Tan Chee-Beng. andChee Beng Tan. Chinese Univ. Press, 2006.
The economic geography of fujian : A sourcebook Cornell Univ. 1995.

History of Fujian

The empire of min : A south china kingdom of the tenth century Warren, Conn. Floating World, 2006.
Min guo shi / 閩國史 Xu, Xiaowang. / 徐曉望 Wu nan tu shu chu ban gong si. 1997
Development and decline of fukien province in the 17th and 18th centuries. ed. E.B. Vermeer. and E. B. Vermeer Leiden. Brill, 1990.
Community, trade, and networks : Southern fujian province from the third to the thirteenth century Clark, Hugh R. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991.
The troublesome legacy of commissioner lin : The opium trade and opium suppression in fujian province, 1820s to 1920s Madancy, Joyce A. Harvard Univ. Asia Center, 2003.
Harvesting mountains : Fujian and the china tea trade, 1757-1937 Gardella, Robert. Univ. of California Press, 1994.
Statesmen and gentlemen : The elite of fu-chou, chiang-hsi, in northern and southern sung Hymes, Robert P. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986.
Prosperity, region, and institutions in maritime china : The south fukien pattern, 946-1368 Su, Jilang. Harvard Univ. Asia Center, 2000.
Chinese local history : Stone inscriptions from fukien in the sung to Chʻing periods Vermeer, E. B. Westview Press, 1991.
Family lineage organization and social change in ming and qing fujian. Zheng, Zhenman. Univ. of Hawaiʻi Press, 2001.
The spiral road : Change in a chinese village through the eyes of a communist party leader Huang, Shu-min. Westview Press, 1989.
Poverty and growth in a south china county : Anxi, fujian, 1949-1992 Cornell Univ., 1994.

Religion in Fujian

Lord of the three in one : The spread of a cult in southeast china Dean, Kenneth, Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.
Taoism and popular religion in southeast china : History and revival Dean, Kenneth. 1988.
Fuzhou protestants and the making of a modern china, 1857-1927 Dunch, Ryan, Yale Univ. Press, 2001.
The foochow missionaries, 1847-1880 Carlson, Ellsworth C. Harvard Univ. Press, 1974.
Christians in china : AD. 600 to 2000. Charbonnier, Jean. Ignatius, 2007.
Christianity in modern china : The making of the first native protestant church Cheung, David. Brill, 2004.
Fukien christian university, a historical sketch Scott, Roderick, United Board for Christian Colleges in China, 1954.

Fujian photos by Sidney Gamble