Visual and material cultures in Middle Period China
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Visual and material cultures in Middle Period China
（Sinica Leidensia, v. 137）
Brill, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Eight studies examine key features of Chinese visual and material cultures, ranging from tomb design, metalware, ceramic pillows, and bronze mirrors, to printed illustrations, calligraphic rubbings, colophons, and paintings on Buddhist, landscape, and narrative themes. Questions addressed include how artists and artisans made their works, the ways both popular literature and market forces could shape ways of looking, and how practices and imagery spread across regions. The authors connect visual materials to funeral and religious practices, drama, poetry, literati life, travel, and trade, showing ways visual images and practices reflected, adapted to, and reproduced the culture and society around them. Readers will gain a stronger appreciation of the richness of the visual and material cultures of Middle Period China.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
List of Illustrations viii
List of Contributors xiv
Introduction Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Shih-shan Susan Huang
Part 1: Making Art in Funeral and Ritual Contexts
1 Modular Design of Tombs in Song and Jin North China - Fei Deng
2 Visualizing Ritual in Southern Song Buddhist Painting - Phillip E. Bloom
Part 2: Setting a Scene
3 Dreams, Spirits, and Romantic Encounters in Jin and Yuan Theatrical Pictures - Fan Jeremy Zhang
4 The Ten Views of West Lake - Xiaolin Duan
Part 3: Appreciating the Written Word
5 A Forgery and the Pursuit of the Authentic Wang Xizhi - Hui-Wen Lu
6 Zhu Xi's Colophons on Handwritten Documents - Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Part 4: Cross-Cultural Transfers
7 Paintings of Birds by Basins - Jie Liu
8 Chinese Objects Recovered from Sutra Mounds in Japan, 1000-1300 - Yiwen Li
Index 319
by "Nielsen BookData"
