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Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture /

"Traditionally the "Chinese body" was understood 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Tsiang, Katherine R., Wu Hung, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • On tomb figurines : the beginning of a visual tradition / Wu Hung
  • Embodiments of Buddhist texts in early medieval Chinese visual culture / Katherine R. Tsiang
  • Of the tree body : the Famen monastery relics and corporeal transformation in tang imperial culture / Eugene Y. Wang
  • Fleshly desires and bodily deprivations : the somatic dimensions of Xu Wei's flower paintings / Kathleen M. Ryor
  • Illness, disability, and deformity in seventeenth-century Chinese art / Qianshen Bai
  • Clothes make the man : dress, modernity, and masculinity in china, ca. 1912-1937 / Robert E. Harrist, Jr
  • The face in life and death : mimesis and Chinese ancestor portraits / Jan Stuart
  • The life and death of the image : ghosts and female portraits in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature / Judith T. Zeitlin
  • Essentially Chinese : the Chinese portrait subject in nineteenth-century photography / Roberta Wue
  • The piping of man / Susan E. Nelson
  • The Kangxi emperor's brush-traces : calligraphy, writing, and the art of imperial authority / Jonathan Hay
  • Phantom theater, disfigurement, and history in song at midnight / Zhang Zhen.