Pekingese Dog from an Imperial Dog Book by an unknown Painter (Collier) Any modern scholarship of Chinese dogs must depend heavily on two sources, V.W.F. Collier’s Dogs of China and Japan in Nature and Art and Berthold Laufer’s Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty. Laufer’s book belongs in the category of art history, but when he finds that naturalists have missed the significance of a number of relics of the Han Dynasty, which lasted from the...
