PROFESSOR Ij Hua, chairman of the Chinese Woodcutters' Union, is one of the tounders of the modem Chinese woodcut movement. For more than half a cenhury he has been working as an artist and a teacher. He is a most accomplished woodcutter and also a collector and researcher of andent Chinese woodcuts. With (full and accurate historical data and a penebating and original point of view, his Chinese Woodcuts describes, in two parts, the development of the art from andent to modem times. Representative works of all epochs have been colleded for this book. It is a profound study of both the theory and practice of the art of the woodcut.