"Culture in Common" explores the transnational history of traditionalist art in modern East Asia through a contextualist account of a Chinese artist s engagement with Japan. Crossing national and disciplinary divides, Walter Davis illuminates how Wang Yiting (1867-1938) mediated Sino-Japanese cooperation in fields to which he contributed importantly art, business, philanthropy, and religion adapting traditional forms of expression to projects and concerns of a modern, international milieu. Grounded in the Japanese archive, "Culture in Common" expands our understanding of Wang Yiting s oeuvre and artistic practices, reveals origins, accomplishments, promises, and limitations of the cross-cultural exchanges he espoused in an era of increasing international tensions, and draws attention to the historical importance and shifting historiographical fortunes of twentieth-century Sino-Japanese visual culture.".