Contents

Part One: Painting and Calligraphy

Hanwei Wang and Yanhua Xu On Paintings in the Southern Dynasties  1

Xiaojun Tao, Jianming Xie and Xiaoyun Zhang Art Market and Social Changes in Early Republic of China (1912-1937) 15

Part Two: Semiotics of Art

Yongxiang Wang On the Multiple Signifiers of Art Symbols  31

Zhaoyi Pan and Xinning Pan Taking Symbols as Images  41

Part Three: Cultural Poetics

Mingming Yang and Rong Zou Cultural Poetics: A New Perspective of the Studies on Lotman  51