Through a forest of chancellors : : fugitive histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an illustrated book from seventeenth-century Suzhou / / Anne Burkus-Chasson.
Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, a woodblock-printed book from 1669, re-creates a portrait gallery that memorialized 24 vassals of the early Tang court. Liu accompanied each figure, presented under the guise of a bandit, with a couplet; the poems, written in various scripts, are surrounded by marginal im...
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Superior document: | Harvard-Yenching Institute monographs ; 66 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ;, London : : Harvard University Asia Center,, Harvard University Press,, [2010] 2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- The composition of the book. The gallery of portraits re-created
- Liu Yuan's cover leaf
- Prefatory autographs
- The preface writers license the pictorial book
- The list of contents
- Lingyan ge, the historical site
- Composing the vassal's figure
- Unordinary images
- Physiognomic fantasies
- Costumes in disarray
- Under the guise of bandits
- The act of turning the leaf
- Structures of the book
- Re-reading Du Fu
- The damask at leaf's edge
- The publication of the book. Painter, publisher, reader-viewer : whose gallery?
- The "social drama" of the Ming-Qing transition
- Liu Yuan and Tong Pengnian
- A model for community : echoing voices among the preface writers
- Climbing Yingzhou : Wu Weiye's response
- Vexations of passage
- Variant endings
- Maxims, furtively impressed
- In the hands of all the masters
- From manuscript to printed book
- - Appendix. Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, with annotated translations.