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