The zoomorphic imagination in Chinese art and culture / edited by Jerome Silbergeld and Eugene Y. Wang.
| Other author | Silbergeld, Jerome, editor. |
| Other author | Wang, Eugene Yuejin, editor. |
| Other author | ebrary, Inc. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016] |
| Description | 1 online resource (xii, 457 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Trading places: an introduction to zoomorphism and anthropomorphism in Chinese art / Jerome Silbergeld -- The taotie motif on early Chinese ritual bronzes / Sarah Allan -- Labeling the creatures : some problems in Han and Six Dynasties iconography / Susan Bush -- Representing the twelve calendrical animals as beastly, human, and hybrid beings in medieval China / Judy Chungwa Ho -- The didactic use of animal images in Southern Song Buddhism : the case of Mount Baoding in Dazu, Sichuan / Henrik H. Sørensen -- Evil dragon, golden rodent, sleek hound: the evolution of soushan tu paintings in the Northern Song period / Carmelita Hinton -- Animals in Chinese rebus paintings / Qianshen Bai -- The pictorial form of a zoomorphic ecology : dragons and their painters in Song and Southern Song China / Jennifer Purtle -- The political animal : metaphoric rebellion in Zhao Yong's painting of heavenly horses / Jerome Silbergeld -- How the giraffe became a qilin : intercultural signification in Ming Dynasty arts / Kathlyn Liscomb -- Weird science : European origins of the fantastic creatures in the Qing court painting, The manual of sea oddities / Daniel Greenberg -- Huang Yong Ping and the power of zoomorphic ambiguity / Kristina Kleutghen. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Original 9780824846763 0824846761 |
| ISBN | 0824846761 |
| ISBN | 9780824846763 |
| ISBN | 0824872746 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9780824872748 (electronic bk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |