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Author : Youhe Zeng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Emperor Hui Tsung, the Artist: 1082-1136 written by Youhe Zeng and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674727681
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Emperor Huizong written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistically-gifted emperor guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness. Yet Huizong would be known to posterity as a political failure who lost the throne to Jurchen invaders and died their prisoner. The first comprehensive English-language biography of this important monarch, Emperor Huizong is a nuanced portrait that corrects the prevailing view of Huizong as decadent and negligent. Patricia Ebrey recasts him as a ruler genuinely ambitious—if too much so—in pursuing glory for his flourishing realm. After a rocky start trying to overcome political animosities at court, Huizong turned his attention to the good he could do. He greatly expanded the court’s charitable ventures, founding schools, hospitals, orphanages, and paupers’ cemeteries. An accomplished artist, he surrounded himself with outstanding poets, painters, and musicians and built palaces, temples, and gardens of unsurpassed splendor. What is often overlooked, Ebrey points out, is the importance of religious Daoism in Huizong’s understanding of his role. He treated Daoist spiritual masters with great deference, wrote scriptural commentaries, and urged his subjects to adopt his beliefs and practices. This devotion to the Daoist vision of sacred kingship eventually alienated the Confucian mainstream and compromised his ability to govern. Readers will welcome this lively biography, which adds new dimensions to our understanding of a passionate and paradoxical ruler who, so many centuries later, continues to inspire both admiration and disapproval.
Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174341
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huizong was an exceptional emperor who lived through momentous times. A man of many talents, he wrote poetry and created his own distinctive calligraphy style; collected paintings, calligraphies, and antiquities on a large scale; promoted Daoism; and involved himself in the training of court artists, the layout of gardens, and reforms of music and medicine. The quarter century when Huizong ruled is just as fascinating. The greatly enlarged scholar-official class had come into its own but was deeply divided by factional strife. The long struggle between the Chinese state and its northern neighbors entered a new phase when Song proved unable to defend itself against the newly emergent Jurchen state of Jin. Huizong and thousands of members of his family and court were taken captive, and the Song dynasty had to recreate itself in the South.
Author : Clara Wing-chung Ho
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739127698
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Windows on the Chinese World written by Clara Wing-chung Ho and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each chapter of this collection addresses a problem in Chinese history that is both interesting and important, as well as offering new ideas and interpretations, plus a methodological example that might inspire other scholars. The collective nature of this volume and the variety of its approaches and topics, plus the high quality of each chapter, make it accessible to scholars in a wide range of intellectual fields who may use from one to all chapters."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Lara C.W. Blanchard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004369392
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire written by Lara C.W. Blanchard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard examines the writing of interiority in paintings of women, considering correspondences to examples of erotic poetry and how such works address the concerns of artists, patrons, and viewers.
Author : Marsha Weidner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824862090
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism written by Marsha Weidner and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-08-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a demonstration of the value of interdisciplinary, culture-based approaches, this collection of essays on "later" Chinese Buddhism takes us beyond the bedrock subjects of traditional Buddhist historiography--scriptures and commentaries, sectarian developments, lives of notable monks--to examine a wide range of extracanonical materials that illuminate cultural manifestations of Buddhism from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the modern period. Straying from well-trodden paths, the authors often transgress the boundaries of their own disciplines: historians address architecture; art historians look to politics; a specialist in literature treats poetry that offers gendered insights into Buddhist lives. The broad-based cultural orientation of this volume is predicated on the recognition that art and religion are not closed systems requiring only minimal cross-indexing with other social or aesthetic phenomena but constituent elements in interlocking networks of practice and belief. Contributors: Terese Tse Bartholomew, Patricia Berger, T. Griffith Foulk, Beata Grant, Kenneth Hammond, Amy McNair, Daniel B. Stevenson, Marsha Weidner.
Author : Valérie Malenfer Ortiz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644997
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Dreaming the Southern Song Landscape written by Valérie Malenfer Ortiz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999-06-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The masterpiece, Dream Journey in the Xiao and Xiang Rivers has been celebrated by critics throughout its long history. Now for the first time this study locates its original historical and social context, and traces its subsequent history and the role it fulfilled at various times.
Author : Charles Lachman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004645357
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Evaluations of Sung Dynasty Painters of Renown written by Charles Lachman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Cahill
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674539709
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (397 download)
Download or read book The Lyric Journey written by James Cahill and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book looks at three exemplary traditions in poetic painting, bringing new understanding of the relationship between the art and the societies that produced it.
Author : Hoyt Cleveland Tillman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438422180
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book China Under Jurchen Rule written by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1995-01-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most extensive study of Chin dynasty history in any language. It demonstrates the importance of cultural developments in North China under the Chin (1115-1234).
Author : Florence Chia-Ying Yeh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351611143
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Seven Lectures on Wang Guowei’s Renjian Cihua written by Florence Chia-Ying Yeh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renjian cihua is a masterpiece of literary criticism written by Wang Guowei (1877–1927), a scholar of the Chinese classics who lived during the late Qing and early Republican periods. Since its publication in 1908 and 1909, it has been one of the most influential academic works in China. Elegantly written, Wang’s set of "remarks on ci poetry" (cihua) retains a traditional Chinese impressionistic critical approach, and can present difficulties to the common reader. This set of lectures by Florence Chia-ying Yeh explains the text to readers, making accessible Wang’s famous theory of jingjie ("aesthetic realm" or "artistic conception"), his views on how the ci differs from the shi genre of Chinese poetry, and his critical judgments of various famous ci poets from the Tang, Five Dynasties, and Song periods. The lectures are presented here in an English translation by Maija Bell Samei.
Author : Youhe Zeng
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622014268
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (142 download)
Download or read book A History of Chinese Calligraphy written by Youhe Zeng and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese calligraphy has been an independent visual art form for thousands of years. Its wonderful aesthetics has inspired the art of Chinese painting since the second century B.C. Before pen and pencil were introduced to China, millions practiced the art of writing in ink. In the twentieth century, the art of calligraphy has not only fascinated modern Chinese who are part of this continuous tradition, but has also captured the interest and imagination of the world. This is the first proper history of Chinese calligraphy in English.
Author : John D. Langlois Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400854091
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book China Under Mongol Rule written by John D. Langlois Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing history, politics, religion, and art, this collection of essays on Chinese civilization under the Mongols challenges the previously held views that Mongol rule had only negative consequences. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Jeannette Shambaugh Elliot
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295997559
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures written by Jeannette Shambaugh Elliot and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wen Fong
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0300057016
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beyond Representation written by Wen Fong and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1992 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Representation surveys Chinese painting and calligraphy from the eighth to the fourteenth century, a period during which Chinese society and artistic expression underwent profound changes. A fourteenth-century Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368) literati landscape painting presents a world that is totally different from that portrayed in the monumental landscape images of the early Sung dynasty (960 - 1279). To chronicle and explain the evolution from formal representation to self-expression is the purpose of this book. Wen C. Fong, one of the world's most eminent scholars of Chinese art, takes the reader through this evolution, drawing on the outstanding collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Focusing on 118 works, each illustrated in full color, the book significantly augments the standard canon of images used to describe the period, enhancing our sense of the richness and complexity of artistic expression during this six-hundred-year era.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Sung Studies Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 954 pages
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Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
