The zoomorphic imagination in Chinese art and culture

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Full Title:: The zoomorphic imagination in Chinese art and culture / edited by Jerome Silbergeld and Eugene Y. Wang

Additional Author/Creators:: Silbergeld, Jerome, editor
Wang, Eugene Yuejin, editor

Table of Contents:: 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 -- 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.
Language:: Multiple languages
Physical Type/Description:: xii, 457 pages ; 26 cm