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The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture (Hardcover)
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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
communistgovernment frequently referred to Nationalists as
“running dogs,” and President Xi Jinping, vowing to quell
corruption at all levels, pledged to capture both “the tigers”
and “the flies.” Splendidly illustrated with works ranging from
Bronze Age vessels to twentieth-century conceptual pieces, this
volume is a wide-ranging look at zoomorphic and anthropomorphic
imagery in Chinese art. The contributors, leading scholars in
Chinese art history and related fields, consider depictions of
animals not as simple, one-for-one symbolic equivalents: they
pursue in depth, in complexity, and in multiple dimensions the ways
that Chinese have used animals from earliest times to the present
day to represent and rhetorically stage complex ideas about the
world around them, examining what this means about China, past and
present. In each chapter, a specific example or theme based on real
or mythic creatures is derived from religious, political, or other
sources, providing the detailed and learned examination needed to
understand the means by which such imagery was embedded in Chinese
cultural life. Bronze Age taotie motifs, calendrical animals,
zoomorphic modes in Tantric Buddhist art, Song dragons and their
painters, animal rebuses, Heaven-sent auspicious horses and
foreign-sent tribute giraffes, the fantastic specimens depicted in
the Qing Manual of Sea Oddities, the weirdly indeterminate
creatures found in the contemporary art of Huang Yong Ping—these
and other notable examples reveal Chinese attitudes over time
toward the animal realm, exploreChinese psychology and patterns of
imagination, and explain some of the critical means and motives of
Chinese visual culture. The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art
and Culture will find a ready audience among East Asian art and
visual culture specialists and those with an interest in literary
or visual rhetoric.
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Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2016 |
Editors: |
Jerome Silbergeld
• Eugene Y. Wang
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Dimensions: |
244 x 168mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
472 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-4676-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8248-4676-1 |
Barcode: |
9780824846763 |
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