Picturing the true form : : Daoist visual culture in traditional China / / Shih-shan Susan Huang.
"Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China's primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to both earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Shih-shan Susan Huang provides a comprehensi...
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Superior document: | Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 342 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2015. Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2015. |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Harvard East Asian Monographs ;
342. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 497 p. :); ill. (some col.) ; |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Imagery of Body and Cosmos
- Mapping the World
- True Form Charts
- Materiality of Daoist Sacred Space
- Performing the Salvation Ritual
- Paintings of Mobile Deities
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index.