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Title Visual and material cultures in Middle Period China / edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Shih-shan Susan Huang
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 334 pages)
Series Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 137
Sinica Leidensia ; v. 137.
Contents Introduction / Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Shih-shan Susan Huang -- Part I. Making art in funeral and ritual contexts -- Modular design of tombs in Song and Jin North China / Fei Deng -- Visualizing ritual in Southern Song Buddhist painting / Phillip E. Bloom -- Part II. tii: Setting a scene -- Dreams, spirits, and romantic encounters in Jin and Yuan theatrical pictures / Fan Jeremy Zhang -- The ten views of West Lake / Xiaolin Duan -- Part III. Appreciating the written words -- A forgery and the pursuit of the authentic Wang Xizhi / Hui-Wen Lu -- Zhu Xi's colophons on handwritten documents / Patricia Buckley Ebrey -- Part IV. Cross-cultural transfers -- Paintings of birds by Basins / Jie Liu -- Chinese objects recovered from Sutra Mounds in Japan, 1000-1300 / Yiwen Li
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 08, 2017)
Subject Art, Chinese -- Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368.
Art, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Antiquities
Art, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties
Art, Chinese -- Song-Yuan dynasties
Civilization
SUBJECT China -- Civilization -- 960-1644. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023995
China -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023988
Subject China
Form Electronic book
Author Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947- editor, author.
Huang, Shih-shan Susan, editor, author
LC no. 2017032105
ISBN 9789004349377
9004349375
9004348980
9789004348981