Painting and calligraphy in the Wu-tsa-tsu : conservative aesthetics in seventeenth-century China

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Painting and calligraphy in the Wu-tsa-tsu : conservative aesthetics in seventeenth-century China

Sewall Oertling

(Michigan monographs in Chinese studies, 68)

Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, c1997

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"This publication interprets and translates the sections on calligraphy and painting found in the Five miscellanies (Wu-tsa-tsu), a text written by the late Ming official Hsieh Chao-che (1567-1624)"--P. [1]

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-162) and indexes

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The late-Ming official Hsieh Chao-che traveled widely, spending most of his career in the provinces. His Wu-tsa-tsu (Five miscellanies) is a priceless resource on Chinese thought and aesthetics in a period of profound political and social change. Oertling's complete translation of the sections on painting and calligraphy is exhaustively annotated and accompanied by a lengthy interpretive essay. Oertling examines the major critical trends of the age: the orthodox, with its emphasis on direct study of classic works, and the heterodox, which encouraged personal expression and change.

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