About the Author

Patricia J. Graham is assistant to the director of the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, and a consultant on Asian art.

Reviews

[This book's] greatest value lies in the fact that it introduces the 'rival tea ceremony' to a Western audience.... I am convinced that this pioneering study will inspire many other researchers.-- "IIAS Newsletter"

Graham [provides] a valuable thematic thread which weaves together widely disparate aesthetic, intellectual, social, and economic phenomena that mediated the assimilation of Ming and Ch'ing culture in Japan.-- "Monumenta Nipponica"