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Download or read book Chinese Steles written by Dorothy C. Wong and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386–581). More than two hundred Chinese Buddhist steles are known to have survived. Their brilliant imagery has long captivated scholars, yet until now the Buddhist stele as a unique art form has received little scholarly attention. Dorothy Wong rectifies that insufficiency by providing in this well-illustrated volume the first comprehensive investigation of this group of Buddhist monuments. She traces the ancient roots of the Chinese stele tradition and investigates the process by which Chinese steles were adapted for Buddhist use. She arranges the known corpus of Buddhist steles into broad chronological and regional groupings and analyzes not only their form and content but also the nexus of complex issues surrounding this art form—from cultural symbolism to the interrelations between religious doctrine and artistic expression, economic production, patronage, and the synthesis of native and foreign art styles. In her analysis of Buddhism’s dialogue with native traditions, Wong demonstrates how the Chinese artistic idiom planted the seeds for major achievements in figural and landscape arts in the ensuing Sui and Tang periods.
Book Synopsis Nomads on Pilgrimage by : Isabelle Charleux
Download or read book Nomads on Pilgrimage written by Isabelle Charleux and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940 is a social history of the Mongols’ pilgrimages to Wutaishan in late imperial and Republican times. In this period of economic crisis and rise of nationalism and anticlericalism in Mongolia and China, this great Buddhist mountain of China became a unique place of intercultural exchanges, mutual borrowings, and competition between different ethnic groups. Based on a variety of written and visual sources, including a rich corpus of more than 340 Mongolian stone inscriptions, it documents why and how Wutaishan became one of the holiest sites for Mongols, who eventually reshaped its physical and spiritual landscape by their rites and strategies of appropriation.
Book Synopsis On Telling Images of China by : Shane McCausland
Download or read book On Telling Images of China written by Shane McCausland and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume address a diverse range of issues in China’s narrative art and visual culture mainly from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) to the present. These studies attend to the complex ways in which images circulate in pictorial media and across boundaries between ‘high art’ and popular culture—images in paintings, prints, stone engravings and posters, as well as in film and video art. In addition, the authors examine the roles of ancient exemplary stories and textual narratives, as well as their reiteration in the visual arts in early modern and modern social and political contexts. The volume is divided into three sections: Representing Paradigms, Interpreting Literary Themes and Narratives, and the Medium and Modernity. While the essays in each section deal with concerns in the field of China’s art history, an editors’ introduction serves to position the topic of narrative art and to introduce definitions and genre issues which run through the book. As a whole, the volume invites reflection on the intrinsic nature of narratives and their pictorial lives, and presents new research which challenges established views and paradigms.
Download or read book Odyssey of Culture written by Yan Zhou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first case study on Wenda Gu that systematically investigates the cultural and artistic context of his life and works, examining selected images of his artwork spanning from the late 1970s to the early 21st century. It is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive and profound study of a Chinese contemporary artist. In the 1980s, the School of Hermeneutics attempted to launch a discursive revolution. Vanguard artists believed that the visual art revolution was an integral part of the critique of culture because it tended to subvert and rebuild the cultural tradition at a discursive level. This book, using a case study on Wenda Gu as representative of Chinese avant-garde, investigates the centrality of culture in art, providing readers with insights on the origin, rationale and methodology of Chinese contemporary art.
Book Synopsis The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor by : Mårten Söderblom Saarela
Download or read book The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor written by Mårten Söderblom Saarela and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the roles played by the Manchu language at the center of the Qing empire at the height of its power in the eighteenth century. It presents a revisionist account of Manchu not as a language in decline, but as extensively and consciously used language in a variety of areas. It treats the use, discussion, regulation, and philological study of Manchu at the court of an emperor who cared deeply for the maintenance and history of the language of his dynasty.
Download or read book Journal of Chinese Religions written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bibliothèque de la Revue de littérature comparée written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Imaginative Interpretation of the Far East in Modern French Literature, 1800-1925 by : William Leonard Schwartz
Download or read book The Imaginative Interpretation of the Far East in Modern French Literature, 1800-1925 written by William Leonard Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Victor Segalen's Literary Encounter with China by : Yvonne Ying Hsieh
Download or read book Victor Segalen's Literary Encounter with China written by Yvonne Ying Hsieh and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Segalen was a French naval doctor, archeologist, ethnographer, explorer, writer, poet, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic. He traveled to China in 1909-1914 and again in 1917. This book examines his 'Chinese works' to determine his choice and adaptation of Chinese material and to shed light on any obscure allusions. It also points out the distinctive features and inherent problems that place each test in a genre of its own.
Book Synopsis The Shaolin Monastery by : Meir Shahar
Download or read book The Shaolin Monastery written by Meir Shahar and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously researched and eminently readable study considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the 21st century have spread throughout the world.
Author :Annette L. Juliano Publisher :China Institute Gallery, China Institute in America ISBN 13 : Total Pages :208 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis Buddhist Sculpture from China by : Annette L. Juliano
Download or read book Buddhist Sculpture from China written by Annette L. Juliano and published by China Institute Gallery, China Institute in America. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sampling from an exhibition by the Beilin Museum of Xi'an, China, 64 Buddhist stone sculptures and steles from the fifth through ninth centuries A.D., are displayed in this book. About a half-page of text accompanies each photograph, discussing what is known about the history of each work as well as its material and aesthetic qualities.
Book Synopsis Nomads, Traders and Holy Men Along China's Silk Road by : Annette L. Juliano
Download or read book Nomads, Traders and Holy Men Along China's Silk Road written by Annette L. Juliano and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers formed part of the symposium, Nomads, Traders and Holy Men Along China's Silk Road, held at the Asia Society in New York on November 9-10, 2001. Although the Silk Road has inspired several important museum exhibitions, none had focused on the Hexi Corridor nor attempted to analyze the complexity of the cross-cultural relationships within China's borders. Nor had any exhibition focused on the nearly four hundred years of political disunity, nomadic incursions and social upheaval, brought about by the collapse of the great Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), that then, after a series of short-lived dynasties, culminated in the reunification of China under the Tang empire (618-906).
Book Synopsis In Forbidden China by : Henri Marie Gustave Ollone (vicomte d')
Download or read book In Forbidden China written by Henri Marie Gustave Ollone (vicomte d') and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In Forbidden China by : Henri d'. Ollone
Download or read book In Forbidden China written by Henri d'. Ollone and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China Review International written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis China's Imperial Tombs and Mausoleums by : Zhewen Luo
Download or read book China's Imperial Tombs and Mausoleums written by Zhewen Luo and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eastern Buddhist written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
