The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture / / ed. by Jerome Silbergeld, Eugene Y. Wang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, Sarah,; Bai, Qianshen,; Bush, Susan,; Greenberg, Daniel,; Hinton, Carmelita,; Ho, Judy Chungwa,; Kleutghen, Kristina,; Liscomb, Kathlyn,; Purtle, Jennifer,; Silbergeld, Jerome,; Sørensen, Henrik H.,; Wang, Eugene Y.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Allan, Sarah.; Bai, Qianshen.; Bush, Susan.; Greenberg, Daniel.; Hinton, Carmelita (Carma).; Ho, Judy Chungwa.; Kleutghen, Kristina.; Liscomb, Kathlyn.; Purtle, Jennifer.; Sørensen, Henrik.
• HerausgeberIn: Silbergeld, Jerome,; Wang, Eugene Y.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.) :; 124 color and 90 b&w illustrations

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
• Trading Places: An Introduction to Zoomorphism and Anthropomorphism in Chinese Art
• chapter 1. The Taotie Motif on Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes
• chapter 2. Labeling the Creatures: Some Problems in Han and Six Dynasties Iconography
• chapter 3. Representing the Twelve Calendrical Animals as Beastly, Human, and Hybrid Beings in Medieval China
• chapter 4. The Didactic Use of Animal Images in Southern Song Buddhism: The Case of Mount Baoding in Dazu, Sichuan
• chapter 5. Evil Dragon, Golden Rodent, Sleek Hound: The Evolution of Soushan Tu Paintings in the Northern Song Period
• chapter 6. Animals in Chinese Rebus Paintings
• chapter 7. The Pictorial Form of a Zoomorphic Ecology: Dragons and Their Painters in Song and Southern Song China
• chapter 8. The Political Animal: Metaphoric Rebellion in Zhao Yong's Painting of Heavenly Horses
• chapter 9. How the Giraffe Became a Qilin: Intercultural Signification in Ming Dynasty Arts
• chapter 10. Weird Science: European Origins of the Fantastic Creatures in the Qing Court Painting, the Manual of Sea Oddities
• chapter 11. Huang Yong Ping and the Power of Zoomorphic Ambiguity
• Glossary
• Contributors
• Index