The first study devoted to one of the most visually distinctive features of the landscape in China - texts carved into boulders and cliffs that are now part of the natural terrain at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
Introduction: Writing on the Bones of the Earth
Chapter One. Public Works and Public Writing at the Stone Gate
Chapter Two. Roaming with Immortals on Cloud Peak Mountain
Chapter Three. The Virtual Stele on Mount Tie and the Merits of Scale
Chapter Four. Imperial Writing and the Ascent of Mount Tai
Chapter Five. Postscript
Chinese Texts
Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Bibliography
Index
Robert E. Harrist Jr. is the Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor of Chinese Art History at Columbia University. He is the author of Power and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art and Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin and co-author of The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection.
"The massive scale and ubiquity with which the Chinese have inscribed words onto the physical landscape is perhaps unparalleled by any other culture. Robert Harrist's book is the most in-depth study of this subject and a remarkable accomplishment. It explores alternative ways of explaining the 'magic' of words in topographic settings and the enduring appeal of calligraphy in Chinese culture." - Eugene Y. Wang, Harvard University "Relying on the most up-to-date scholarship in China and current methodologies in the West, as well as his own arduous explorations of remote mountain sites, Harrist has produced a book that joins the best of Sinological tradition with a discriminating art-historical sensibility." - Amy McNair, University of Kansas# "[T]his meticulously researched book...is the first study in a Western language devoted to these texts, moya or moya shike, carved into the natural terrain on granite boulders and cliffs at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest." Asian Art, December 2008
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