No other civilization in the pre-modern world was more obsessed with creating underground burial structures than the Chinese. The Art of the Yellow Springs argues that to achieve a genuine understanding of Chinese tombs we need to reconsider a host of art-historical concepts, including visuality, viewership, space, formal analysis, function and context. Profusely illustrated with many outstanding works of art, this groundbreaking new assessment demonstrates the amazing richness of arguably the longest and most persistent tradition in the entirety of Chinese art.