For more than forty years William Watson occupied a unique place in the study and teaching of Chinese art in Great Britain, his publications covering a wide field, his command of Chinese, Japanese, Russian and western languages giving access to the fullest literature on his subjects. At the Royal Academy of Arts he took a leading part in the Chinese ... Read morearchaeological exhibition of 1972 which reinstated cultural relations between Britain and China. Also at the Royal Academy he was the instigator and chief organizer of the Japanese exhibition of 1982, in which for the first time the art of the Tokugawa period was comprehensively presented outside of Japan as enshrining the national genius. Show Less