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The plates of the collections include:
＊The copyright information of three languages (Chinese, English, Japanese).
＊Complete images of the collections: The images present the “guide, ge-shui (a form of calligraphy and painting mounting), painting, seal, preface and postscript, and the small-paper copy (according to the scale of paper) of paintings.
＊Full scale images of the collections: Annotating “full size” under the plates of the paintings or the preface and postscript with higher artistic value.
＊Detail images of the collections: Providing the more exquisite details and abundant information about pen and ink of the paintings. Magnifying the whole or the part of paintings with several plates, and annotating “ a large size proportion”.

The introduction of the plates include:
＊The introduction of the collections: Inviting the experts in artist to write appreciation and textual criticism for each collection.
＊The interpretation of preface and postscript: The complete, detailed, and rigorous interpretation of the words on preface and postscript (guide, ge-shu, Shih Tang, streak), then through strike review and proofreader, and presented with standard Traditional Chinese.
＊The interpretation of the seals: All the seals published in each collection had interpreted by the experts. Then put them in the introductory of plates after comparing the pictures and words.

The master pieces recorded in this collection include:
＊The master pieces: “Chiou Sing Ba Jing Tu”, “Zeng Sin Yu Shan Shuei Tu”, “Yan Jiang Dieh Jhang Tu”, "Jing Si Jhao Yin Tu”, “Chiou Jiang Yu Ting Tu”, “Hu Shan Chiou Se Tu”, “Jiou Fong Han Tsuei Tu”, etc.
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Museum image licensing:
＊China: The Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum, Guangdong Museum, Tianjin Museum, etc.
＊Europe: British Museum, Museum of Asian Art, etc.
＊The USA: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, etc.
＊Japan: Tokyo National Museum, Jishoin.
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Experts recommend:
Wen C. Fong (a famous art historian, a emeritus professor of Department of Art and Archaeology in Princeton University)
Richard Barnhart (a famous art historian, a academic tenure of Yale University)
Hiroyuki Sugiyama (the chief of KGC)
Innshutsu Meikou (the vice chief of KGC)
Beitaku Hannhaku (SCREEN in Japan)

Paintings of Chinese past dynasties have been compiled and published in sequence —“The Collection of Pre-qin, Han and Tang Dynasty Paintings”, “The Collection of Song Dynasty Paintings” “The Collection of Yuan Dynasty Paintings”, “The Collection of Ming Dynasty Paintings”, “The Collection of Qing Dynasty Paintings”. 67 scrolls and more than 240 volumes in total, which collected more than 12250 pieces of Chinese paintings of more than 260 museums at home and abroad. Taking more than 23000 high clear images, including most of the national treasure level Chinese paintings which are handed on from one generation to another. So far, the books have the most complete collections, the most vivid image records, the most exquisite printing quality, and the largest published image of Chinese painting of all the similar publications.

Dong Qichang (1555-1636), courtesy name Xuanzai, pseudonym Siang Guang, alias Sih Bai, Sih Wong. Dong Qichang was a native of Hua Ting, Songjiang district (located in modern day Shanghai). His great-grandmother, Mrs.Gau, is the descendant of a Yuan famous painter, Gao Kegong.

Dong Qichang advocated the “Shih Chi” of literati paintings, praised that “travelling brings about far greater benefit than mere book learning.”, pursued the aesthetic of “Sheng, Jhuo, Jhen, Dan”. “Theory of South and North School”, based on Four Masters of the Yuan dynasty, has constructed the aesthetic system of literati paintings for more than four hundred years after it, which indicates that it made a far and deep influence.

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