List of Figures xi
Notes on Contributors xv
Introduction 1
Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang
Part I Production and Distribution 27
1 Court Painting 29
Patricia Ebrey
2 The Culture of Art Collecting in Imperial China 47
Scarlett Jang
3 Art, Print, and Cultural Discourse in Early Modern China
73
J. P. Park
4 Art and Early Chinese Archaeological Materials 91
Xiaoneng Yang
Part II Representation and Reality 113
5 Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror 115
Shane McCausland
6 The Language of Portraiture in China 136
Dora C. Y. Ching
7 Visualizing the Divine in Medieval China 158
Katherine R. Tsiang
8 Landscape 177
Peter C. Sturman
9 Concepts of Architectural Space in Historical Chinese Thought
195
Cary Y. Liu
10 Time in Early Chinese Art 212
Eugene Y. Wang
Part III Theories and Terms 233
11 The Art of “Ritual Artifacts” (Liqi): Discourse and Practice
235
Wu Hung
12 Classification, Canon, and Genre 254
Richard Vinograd
13 Conceptual and Qualitative Terms in Historical Perspective
277
Ronald Egan
14 Imitation and Originality, Theory and Practice 293
Ginger Cheng-chi Hs¨u
15 Calligraphy 312
Qianshen Bai
16 Emptiness-Substance: Xushi 329
Jason C. Kuo
Part IV Objects and Persons 349
17 Artistic Status and Social Agency 351
Martin J. Powers
18 Ornament in China 371
Jessica Rawson
19 Folding Fans and Early Modern Mirrors 392
Antonia Finnane
20 Garden Art 410
Xin Wu
21 Commercial Advertising Art in 1840–1940s “China” 431
Tani E. Barlow
Part V Word and Image 455
22 Words in Chinese Painting 457
Alfreda Murck
23 On the Origins of Literati Painting in the Song Dynasty
474
Jerome Silbergeld
24 Poetry and Pictorial Expression in Chinese Painting 499
Susan Bush
25 Popular Literature and Visual Culture in Early Modern China
517
Jianhua Chen
Index 535
Martin J. Powers is Sally Michelson Davidson
Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures at the University of
Michigan, USA, and former director of the Center for Chinese
Studies. His publications Art and Political Expression in
Early China (1991) and Pattern and Person: Ornament,
Society, and Self in Classical China (2006) have both received
the Levenson Prize for the best books in pre-twentieth century
Chinese Studies.
Katherine R. Tsiang is Associate Director of the Center
for the Art of East Asia in the Department of Art History,
University of Chicago, USA, where she coordinates research
materials and programs. Her research is concentrated in the fields
of Chinese Buddhist art and Chinese medieval art and visual
culture. Her work includes using new technology for digital imaging
and reconstruction of Chinese Buddhist caves and she is curator and
author of the catalog of the exhibition "Echoes of the Past: The
Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan" (2010).
"This volume represents the equivalent in scholarship of the coming of a new dynasty. These analyses by the best of a new generation of writers will rejuvenate the whole field." John Onians, University of East Anglia, UK "This comprehensive guide to the arts of premodern China, the fresh thinking of leading historians, provides a major new resource for students and scholars at all levels." Craig Clunas, University of Oxford, UK
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