Through a forest of chancellors : : fugitive histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an illustrated book from seventeenth-century Suzhou / / Anne Burkus-Chasson.

• Superior document: Harvard-Yenching Institute monographs ; 66
• VerfasserIn: Burkus, Anne Gail,
• 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 ; 66.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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...

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.