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The Mongol Century - Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368 (Hardcover)
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The Mongol Century - Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368 (Hardcover)
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The Mongol Century explores the visual world of China's Yuan
dynasty (1271-1368), the spectacular but short-lived regime founded
by Khubilai Khan, regarded as the pre-eminent khanate of the Mongol
empire. This book illuminates the Yuan era - full of conflicts and
complex interactions between Mongol power and Chinese heritage - by
delving into the visual history of its culture. Shane McCausland
considers how Mongol governance and values imposed a new order on
China's culture and also how a sedentary, agrarian China posed
specific challenges to the Mongols' militarist and nomadic
lifestyle. He also explores how an unusual range of expectations
and pressures were placed on Yuan culture: the idea that visual
culture could create cohesion across a diverse yet hierarchical
society, while balancing Mongol desires for novelty and display
with Chinese concerns about posterity. Although in recent years
exhibitions have begun to open up the inherent paradoxes of Yuan
culture, this is the first study in English to adopt a fully
comprehensive approach.It incorporates the full range of visual
media of the East Asia region to reconsider the impact Mongol
culture had in China, from urban architecture and design to tomb
murals and porcelain, and from calligraphy and printed paper money
to stone sculpture. A fresh and invigorating analysis, The Mongol
Century explores, in fascinating detail, the visual culture of this
brief but captivating era of East Asian history.
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