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
PublicationHonolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
Description1 online resource (xii, 457 pages)
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
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ISBN0824846761
ISBN9780824846763
ISBN0824872746 (electronic bk.)
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