Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture / / Hung Wu, Katherine R. Tsiang.

"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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Superior document:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 239
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2005.
Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
Year of Publication:2005
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 239.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Wu Hung and Katherine R. Tsiang
  • Introduction / Wu Hung and Katherine R. Tsiang
  • On Tomb Figurines / Wu Hung
  • Embodiments of Buddhist Texts in Early Medieval Chinese Visual Culture / Katherine R. Tsiang
  • Of the True Body / Eugene Y. Wang
  • Fleshly Desires and Bodily Deprivations / Kathleen M. Ryor
  • Illness, Disability, and Deformity in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art / Qianshen Bai
  • Clothes Make the Man / Robert E. Harrist
  • The Face in Life and Death / Jan Stuart
  • The Life and Death of the Image / Judith T. Zeitlin
  • Essentially Chinese / Roberta Wue
  • The Piping of Man / Susan E. Nelson
  • The Kangxi Emperor's Brush-Traces / Jonathan Hay
  • Phantom Theater, Disfigurement, and History in 'Song at Midnight' / Zhang Zhen
  • Notes / Wu Hung and Katherine R. Tsiang
  • Index / Wu Hung and Katherine R. Tsiang
  • Harvard East Asian Monographs / Wu Hung and Katherine R. Tsiang.