Father Harrie A. Vanderstappen (1921–2007) was for over 30 years professor of art history at the University of Chicago, where he taught Chinese and Asian art history. A life-long member of the Society of the Divine Word, a global Catholic missionary order, he was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1945. In addition to his teaching and scholarly work, he spent decades in Chicago ministering to the poor and needy. Roger E. Covey (1954–2013), president of the Tang Research Foundation, was an independent scholar whose academic work has been published in China, the United States, and Europe

"In an age when art history is too much dominated by proponents of theoretical, non-visual approaches to the works of art, really good examples of visual approaches are in short supply, and welcome. "The Landscape Painting of China" is a valuable visual/art-historical treatment of early Chinese painting, through the mid-seventeenth century and the Ming dynasty."--James Cahill, author of "Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China" "Revisits the significant stylistic study of Chinese painting, which has long been overdue."--Ling-en Lu, assistant curator of Early Chinese Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City "Immediate, lively, engaging, and challenging, this work offers a tutorial in Chinese landscape painting that will guide the reader to see and understand this most subtle and expressive art form."--Amy McNair, author of "Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture"