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The zoomorphic imagination in Chinese art and culture /

China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. In modern times, the communist government frequently referred to Nationali...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Silbergeld, Jerome (Editor ), Wang, Eugene Yuejin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The taotie motif on early Chinese ritual bronzes / Sarah Allan
  • Labeling the creatures : some problems in Han and Six Dynasties iconography / Susan Bush
  • Representing the twelve calendrical animals as beastly, human, and hybrid beings in medieval China / Judy Chungwa Ho
  • The didactic use of animal images in Southern Song Buddhism : the case of Mount Baoding in Dazu, Sichuan / Henrik H. Sørensen
  • The evolution of soushan tu paintings in the Northern Song period / Carmelita Hinton
  • Animals in Chinese rebus paintings / Qianshen Bai
  • The pictorial form of a zoomorphic ecology : dragons and their painters in Song and Southern Song China / Jennifer Purtle
  • The political animal : metaphoric rebellion in Zhao Yong's painting of heavenly horses / Jerome Silbergeld
  • How the giraffe became a qilin : intercultural signification in Ming Dynasty arts / Kathlyn Liscomb
  • Weird science : European origins of the fantastic creatures in the Qing court painting, The manual of sea oddities / Daniel Greenberg
  • Huang Yong Ping and the power of zoomorphic ambiguity / Kristina Kleutghen.