Powers Martin Joseph - A Companion to Chinese Art

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8. A Companion to Chinese Art edited by Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang

This edition first published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to Chinese art / Edited by Martin J. Powers & Katherine R. Tsiang.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4443-3913-0 (cloth)

1. Art, Chinese. I. Powers, Martin Joseph, 1949- editor. II. Tsiang, Katherine R., editor.
N7340.C635 2015
709.51dc23

2015015813

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Cover image: Dong Qichang, Landscape after a Poem by Du Fu, The Rock Cliff Reveals, After the Clouds Passing by, its Face of Brocade and Embroidery, series Landscapes in the Manner of Old Masters, 162125, Ming dynasty, album leaf, ink, and color on paper, 55.9 34.9 cm. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Purchase: acquired through the generosity of the Hall Family Foundations and the exchange of other Trust properties, 863/7. Photo Jamison Miller.

To our mothers.

Qianshen Bai is Associate Professor of Zhejiang University, formerly at Boston University and author of Fu Shan's World: The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Seventeenth Century (2003) and is currently working on a book on Wu Dacheng, a government official, scholar, collector, and artist in the nineteenth century.

Tani E. Barlow is T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor at Rice University where she teaches in the History Department. Professor Barlow's research focus is Chinese women's history. Her study of early twentieth century Chinese vernacular sociology and commercial art, In the Event of Women, is forthcoming. She is founding senior editor of positions: asia critique.

Susan Bush is an Associate-in-Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. Her publications include: The Chinese Literati on Painting: Su Shih (10371101) to Tung Ch'i-ch'ang (15551636) (2012), Early Chinese Texts on Painting compiled with Hsio-yen Shih (1985), and Theories of the Arts in China, co-edited with Christian Murck (1983).

Jianhua Chen received his PhD in Literature from Fudan University and Harvard University. He is currently Ziyuan Professor at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His recent publications include books and articles on revolution and literary modernity, popular literature, print culture, and cinema in modern and contemporary China.

Dora C. Y. Ching is Associate Director of the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University. She has co-edited numerous volumes on East Asian art and has published several articles on Chinese imperial portraiture. She is currently writing a book on the history of portraiture in China.

Patricia Ebrey is Professor of History at the University of Washington. A specialist on the Song period, she was awarded the 2010 Shimada Prize in East Asian art history for Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (2008). Earlier books include The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Women in the Sung Period (1993) and The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (1996, 2010). She recently published Emperor Huizong (2014), bringing to completion a project that absorbed many years.

Ronald Egan is Professor of Chinese Poetry at Stanford University. He is the author of The Problem of Beauty: Aesthetic Thought and Pursuits in Northern Song Dynasty China (2006) and translator of Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letter by Qian Zhongshu (1998). His most recent project is The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China (forthcoming).

Antonia Finnane is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her publications include Speaking of Yangzhou, A Chinese City, 15501850 (2004), winner of the 2006 Levenson Book Award for a work on pre-1900 China, and