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Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China

Craig Clunas
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Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781861894991

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Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China is not simply a survey of sixteenth-century images, but rather, a thorough and thoughtful examination of visual culture in China's Ming Dynasty, one that considers images wherever they appeared—not only paintings, but also illustrated books, maps, ceramic bowls, lacquered boxes, painted fans, and even clothing and tomb pictures. Clunas's theory of visuality incorporates not only the image and the object upon which it is placed but also the culture which produced and purchased it. Economic changes in sixteenth-century China—the rapid expansion of trade routes and a growing class of consumers—are thus intricately bound up with the evolution of the image itself. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China will be a touchstone for students of Chinese history, art, and culture.

Superfluous Things

Craig Clunas
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Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824828208

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Superfluous Things by Craig Clunas Pdf

Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes “superfluous things”—the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China—and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.

Empire of Great Brightness

Craig Clunas
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Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : 1861893604

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Empire of Great Brightness by Craig Clunas Pdf

History of art / art & design styles.

Visualizing Modern China

James A. Cook,Joshua Goldstein,Matthew D. Johnson,Sigrid Schmalzer
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Author : James A. Cook,Joshua Goldstein,Matthew D. Johnson,Sigrid Schmalzer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739190449

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Visualizing Modern China by James A. Cook,Joshua Goldstein,Matthew D. Johnson,Sigrid Schmalzer Pdf

Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical overview, while the chronologically arranged chapters use engaging case studies to explore important themes. Topics include: Qing court ritual, rebellion and war, urban/rural relations, art and architecture, sports, the Chinese diaspora, state politics, film propaganda and censorship, youth in the Cultural Revolution, environmentalism, and Internet culture. Companion website: http://visualizingmodernchina.org

Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700

Daria Berg
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Author : Daria Berg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136290213

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Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700 by Daria Berg Pdf

Exploring the works of key women writers within their cultural, artistic and socio-political contexts, this book considers changes in the perception of women in early modern China. The sixteenth century brought rapid developments in technology, commerce and the publishing industry that saw women emerging in new roles as both consumers and producers of culture. This book examines the place of women in the cultural elite and in society more generally, reconstructing examples of particular women’s personal experiences, and retracing the changing roles of women from the late Ming to the early Qing era (1580-1700). Providing rich detail of exceptionally fine, interesting and engaging literary works, this book opens fascinating new windows onto the lives, dreams, nightmares, anxieties and desires of the authors and the world out of which they emerged.

Mapping Early Modern Japan

Marcia Yonemoto
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Author : Marcia Yonemoto
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520928305

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Mapping Early Modern Japan by Marcia Yonemoto Pdf

This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes—including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias—to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial publishers, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study shows how spatial and geographical knowledge confined to elites in early Japan became more generalized, flexible, and widespread in the Tokugawa period. In the broadest sense, her book grasps the elusive processes through which people came to name, to know, and to interpret their worlds in narrative and visual forms.

The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China

Chun Mei
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Author : Chun Mei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004191662

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The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China by Chun Mei Pdf

Using the concept of theatricality to study Water Margin and Journey to the West, this study illustrates how writing and reading in early modern China became fused with a theatrical imagination in response to destabilizing social and political forces.

Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004349377

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Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China by Anonim Pdf

Eight studies examine key features of Chinese visual and material cultures, ranging from tombs and ceramics to Buddhist paintings and colophons on calligraphies. The essays connect visual materials to funeral and religious practices, drama, poetry, literati life, travel, and trade.

Screen of Kings

Craig Clunas
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Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822038973145

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Screen of Kings by Craig Clunas Pdf

Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy – relatives of the emperors – in Ming dynasty China (1368–1644). Through an analysis of their patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through a study of the contents of their splendid and recently excavated tombs, this innovative study puts the aristocracy back at the heart of accounts of China’s culture, from which they have been excluded until very recently. Screen of Kings challenges much of the received wisdom about Ming China. Craig Clunas sheds new light on many familiar artworks, as well as works that have never before been reproduced. New archaeological discoveries have furnished the author with evidence of the lavish and spectacular lifestyles of these provincial princes and demonstrate how central the imperial family was to the high culture of the Ming era. Written by the leading specialist in the art and culture of the Ming period, this book illuminates a key aspect of China’s past, and will significantly alter our understanding of the Ming. It will be enjoyed by anyone with a serious interest in the history and art of this great civilization.

Practices of the Sentimental Imagination

Jonathan Zwicker
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Author : Jonathan Zwicker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174461

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Practices of the Sentimental Imagination by Jonathan Zwicker Pdf

"The history of the book in nineteenth-century Japan follows an uneven course that resists the simple chronology often used to mark the divide between premodern and modern literary history.By examining the obscured histories of publication, circulation, and reception of widely consumed literary works from late Edo to the early Meiji period, Jonathan Zwicker traces a genealogy of the literary field across a long nineteenth century: one that stresses continuities between the generic conventions of early modern fiction and the modern novel. In the literature of sentiment Zwicker locates a tear-streaked lens through which to view literary practices and readerly expectations that evolved across the century.Practices of the Sentimental Imagination emphasizes both qualitative and quantitative aspects of literary production and consumption, balancing close readings of canonical and noncanonical texts, sophisticated applications of critical theory, and careful archival research into the holdings of nineteenth-century lending libraries and private collections. By exploring the relationships between and among Japanese literary works and texts from late imperial China, Europe, and America, Zwicker also situates the Japanese novel within a larger literary history of the novel across the global nineteenth century."

Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art

Joshua A. Fogel
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Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520289840

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Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art by Joshua A. Fogel Pdf

The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scholars investigates Japan’s impact on Chinese art from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1930s. Individual essays address a range of perspectives, including the work of individual Chinese and Japanese painters, calligraphers, and sculptors, as well as artistic associations, international exhibitions, the collotype production or artwork, and the emergence of a modern canon.

The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese History

Jeremy Clarke
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Author : Jeremy Clarke
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888139996

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The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese History by Jeremy Clarke Pdf

The Chinese Catholic Church traces its living roots back to the late sixteenth century and its historical roots back even further, to the Yuan dynasty. This book explores paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and the communities that produced them over several centuries. It argues for the emergence of distinctly Chinese Catholic identities as artistic representations of the Virgin Mary, at different times and in different places, absorbed and in turn influenced representations of Chinese figures from Guanyin to the Empress Dowager. At other times indigenous styles have been diluted by Western influences—following the influx of European missionaries in the nineteenth century, for example, or with globalization in recent years. The book engages with history, theology and art, and draws on imagery and archival photographs that have been largely neglected. As a study of the social and cultural histories of communities that have survived over many centuries, this book offers a new view of Catholicism in China—one that sees its history as more than simply a cycle of persecution and resistance. Fr. Jeremy Clarke, SJ, is an Australian Province Jesuit teaching as an assistant professor in the History Department of Boston College. He is also a school visitor in the Australian Center for China in the World at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Elegant Debts

Craig Clunas
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Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824827724

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Elegant Debts by Craig Clunas Pdf

This book takes an innovative approach to one of the great figures of Chinese culture, the writer and painter Wen Zhengming (1470–1559). Renowned as one of the great “scholar painters” of the Ming dynasty, Wen was enmeshed in a complex web of social obligations, his “elegant debts” as he called them, which led to many of his most celebrated works. Using an unprecedented quantity of primary sources for his life and work, Elegant Debts looks at the ways in which social obligation and gift exchange were central to personal and individual identity in the Ming period. The book also examines Wen’s family relationships, his friends, mentors, and pupils, his sense of a distinct local identity, and the interplay of national and regional politics with the achievements of his long life. It uses the insights of a range of scholarship—art history, social and literary history, and anthropology—to show how “self” was constructed in Ming China. In doing so, it makes a major contribution toward a more diverse art history that is less dependent on European conceptions of artists and their work. Craig Clunas has published extensively in the field, and is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading scholars of Ming culture. Featuring many images of the work of one of China’s major painters, this book is accessible to all who are interested in China’s culture and history, as well as to students and scholars of art history and the history of culture.

Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture

Hung Wu,Katherine R. Tsiang
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Author : Hung Wu,Katherine R. Tsiang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174034

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Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture by Hung Wu,Katherine R. Tsiang Pdf

Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve contributors to this volume adopt a middle position. They agree that Chinese images are conditioned by indigenous traditions and dynamics of social interaction, but they seek to explain a general Chinese body and face by charting multiple, specific bodies and faces. All of the chapters are historical case studies and investigate particular images, such as Han dynasty tomb figurines; Buddhist texts and illustrations; pictures of deprivation, illness, deformity, and ghosts; clothing; formal portraiture; and modern photographs and films. From the diversity of art forms and historical periods studied, there emerges a more complex picture of ways that the visual culture of the body and face in China has served to depict the living, memorialize the dead, and present the unrepresentable in art.

Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China

Cynthia J. Brokaw,Kai-Wing Chow
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Author : Cynthia J. Brokaw,Kai-Wing Chow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520231269

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Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China by Cynthia J. Brokaw,Kai-Wing Chow Pdf

"A very useful book on a topic of growing importance and interest. Brokaw's introduction is one of the most valuable and best-written prefaces to an edited volume that I have encountered in some time."—Kent Guy, author of The Emperor's Four Treasures