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Author : Alice R. M. Hyland
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Deities, Emperors, Ladies, and Literati written by Alice R. M. Hyland and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Brownell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520221161
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities written by Susan Brownell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-01-07 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Literature: Lydia H. Liu
Author : Tamara Heimarck Bentley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754666721
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) written by Tamara Heimarck Bentley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) as an artist and scholar of the late Ming period, until now no full length study in English has focused on his work. Author Tamara H. Bentley takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach, treating Chen's oeuvre in relation to literary themes and economic changes, and linking these larger concerns to visual analyses. In so doing, Bentley sheds new light not only on Chen, but also on an important cultural moment in the first half of the seventeenth century, when Chinese scholar artists began to direct their work towards anonymous public markets.
Author : Patricia Ann Berger
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824816629
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Latter Days of the Law written by Patricia Ann Berger and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178023158X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Fruitful Sites written by Craig Clunas and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1369–1644) firmly in the social and cultural history of the day. Who owned gardens? Who visited them? How were they represented in words, in paintings and in visual culture generally, and what meanings did these representations hold at different levels of Chinese society? Drawing on a wide range of recent work in cultural theory, Craig Clunas provides for the first time a historical and materialist account of Chinese garden culture, and replaces broad generalizations and orientalist fantasy with a convincing picture of the garden's role in social life.
Author : Judith G. Smith
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870999281
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting written by Judith G. Smith and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1999 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with a December 1999 symposium held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and an exhibition, "The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection." Twelve contributions give dissenting opinions regarding a book recently published by The Museum titled Along the Riverbank, which seeks to attribute the painting called "Riverbank" to the 10th-century landscape master Dong Yuan--an attribution that would call for the rewriting of early Chinese painting history. This volume contains 239 bandw illustrations to support the contributors' efforts to explain their opinions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 9994711202
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (947 download)
Download or read book A Decade of Collecting, 1984–1993: Friends of Asian Art Gifts written by and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rubie S. Watson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520071247
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society written by Rubie S. Watson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-04-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, political, economic, and gender inequalities that have so characterized Chinese society.
Author : Susan Naquin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520923454
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Peking written by Susan Naquin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint. This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image as China's great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs, markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability, Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time, illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between human beings and gods, about community service and public responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese studies for years to come.
Author : TamaraHeimarck Bentley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135154456X
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599?652) written by TamaraHeimarck Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) as an artist and scholar of the Ming period, until now no full length study in English has focused on his work. Author Tamara H. Bentley takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach, treating Chen's oeuvre in relation to literary themes and economic changes, and linking these larger concerns to visual analyses. Considering Chen's paintings and prints alongside Chen's romance drama commentaries and prefaces and his collected writings (particularly poetry), Bentley sheds new light not only on Chen, but also on an important cultural moment in the first half of the seventeenth century. Through analysis of Chen's figure paintings and print designs, Bentley examines the artist's engagement with the values of "authenticity" and "emotion," which were part of a larger discourse stressing idiosyncrasy, the individual voice, and vernacular literature. She contrasts these values with the commercial aspects of his production, geared at an expanding art market of well-to-do buyers, excavating the apparent contradiction inherent in the two pursuits. In the end, she suggests, the emphasis on the "authentic" voice was marketed to a broad field of anonymous buyers. Though her primary focus is on Chen Hongshou, Bentley's investigation ultimately concerns not only this individual artist, but also the effect of early modern changes on an artist's mode of working and his self-image, in the West as well as the East. The study touches upon expanding international trade and the rise of middle class art markets (including print markets), not only in China but also in the Dutch Republic in circa 1630-1650. Bentley investigates the specific rhetoric of different categories of images, including Chen's non-literal figurative works; literal commemorative portraits; his printed romance-drama illustrations; and his printed playing cards. Bentley's investigation takes in issues of studio practice (including various types of image replicati
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521243346
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (433 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of China written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sherman Cochran
Publisher : Cornell East Asia Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Inventing Nanjing Road written by Sherman Cochran and published by Cornell East Asia Series. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this collection of seven essays (plus an editor's introduction and a comparative afterword) have framed debates about the construction of commercial culture in China. They all have agreed that during the early twentieth century China's commercial culture was centered in the private sector of Shanghai's economy and especially in the "concession" areas under Western or Japanese rule, but they have differed over the issue of whether foreign influence was decisive in the creation of Shanghai's commercial culture. Between 1900 and 1937, was Shanghai's commercial culture imported from the West or invented locally? And between 1937 and 1945, was the history of this commercial culture cut short by Japanese military invasions and occupations of the city or was it sustained throughout the war? The contributors have proposed various and even conflicting answers to these questions, and their interpretations bear upon wider debates in historical, cultural, and comparative studies.
Author : Kazuko Kameda-Madar
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004528024
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Imagery of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering: Visualizing Tokugawa Cultural Networks written by Kazuko Kameda-Madar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the diverse visual representations of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering produced during the Edo period Japan.
Author : Roger T. Ames
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791427262
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice written by Roger T. Ames and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores, from a cross-cultural viewpoint and in terms of symbolic expression, the self's problematic relationship to language and art and to the culture embedding the language and art.
Author : David Faure
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804767934
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Emperor and Ancestor written by David Faure and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state—first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state.
Author : Susan NAQUIN
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004516417
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Gods of Mount Tai written by Susan NAQUIN and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the intersection of art and religious history, Susan Naquin’s richly illustrated history presents a fresh method for studying Chinese gods and sacred places as it tells the full story of Mount Tai and the premier female deity of North China.
Author : Carol Lynne Waara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arts and Life written by Carol Lynne Waara and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My primary sources are the art periodicals themselves, documents on the history of periodical publishing and printing in China, memoirs, and biographies. I focus on two specific magazines edited by the major artists and critics of the day and exemplary of the two decades framing this study: Zhenxiang huabao (The True Record) (1912-1913), a prototype Chinese pictorial, and Meishu shenghuo (Arts and Life) (1934-37), a rich spectacle of art, news, and features. A third magazine, Liang you (Young Companion) (1926-1941), one of the most popular Republican era pictorials, is analyzed comparatively with the two arts magazines.
