Volume 21 – Number 1
Jan 1990
Professor Alexander C. Soper III: 85th Birthday Anniversary
Bronze Drums
Wang Hui Handscroll
Dehua Figures
Tang and Song Images of Guanyin
Hakuho Period Gilt-bronze Buddha
Miracles of the Buddha
Ordos Bronzes
Detail of one of four temple columns
14th century
Wood of the verbena family
Honolulu Academy of Arts
Gift of Mrs Charles M. Cooke, Sr., 1931, 3477
(Photography by Tibor Franyo)
To celebrate Orientations twentieth anniversary, the January 1990 issue is appropriately dedicated to Alexander Soper, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Editor of Artibus Asiae, whose pinoeering contributions to the study of Asian art have inspired students and other scholars for more than five decades. Apart from his monumental work on the Six Dynasties period in China, Professor Soper is responsible for opening up major new spheres of interest in both Chinese and Japanese art and in the Buddhist arts of ancient northern India and Central Asia. In honour of the 85th anniversary of his birth, Alexander Soper's students have contributed a number of articles for this issue that reflect the wide range and scope of their scholarship and serve as a lasting tribute to their mentor.

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Emma C. Bunker. Ancient Ordos Bronzes with Tin-Enriched Surfaces
Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky. Post-Englightenment Miracles of the Buddha
Donald F. McCallum. A Standing Gilt-Bronze Buddha of the 'Boyish' Category in the Tokyo National Museum
Penelope E. Mason. Jigoku Tayu A Macabre Theme in Meiji Art
Angela F. Howard. Tang and Song Images of Guanyin from Sichuan
Mary H. Fong. Dehua Figures: A Type of Chinese Popular Sculpture
Tseng Yuho Ecke. The Immortal Hermitage on the Peach Stream
Hsio-yen Shih. Bronze Drums
Elizabeth Childs-Johnson. Professor Alexander C. Soper