"Emperor Xuanzong's Flight to Shu" (photo Metropolitan Museum of Art)

"Travelers in a Wintry Forest" (photo Metropolitan Museum of Art)

A detail of Hong Hao's 2000 work, "Spring Festival Along the River," which combines photography with a copy of a 12th-century hanging scroll. (photo Fred R. Conrad/The New York)

Chinese peasants ride bicycles down a long country road in Hai Bao's 2005 series. (photo Fred R. Conrad/The New York)

"Ten Thousand Miles Along the Yellow River" is a pair of scrolls from the late 17th to early 18th centuries. (photo Metropolitan Museum of Art)

A bound book titled "Selected Scriptures" is a 2000 work by Hong Hao. (photo Metropolitan Museum of Art)

"Living Aloft: Master Liu's Retreat" (1543) by Wen Zhengming (photo Metropolitan Museum of Art)

“Journeys: Mapping the Earth and Mind in Chinese Art” is on view through Aug. 26 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street; (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org.