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Spanning two millennia and East and Inner Asia, this volume's essays highlight Patricia Berger's vast range of expertise as well as general themes that run through her work. Topics include art's re...
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Spanning two millennia and East and Inner Asia, this volume's essays highlight Patricia Berger's vast range of expertise as well as general themes that run through her work. Topics include art's relationship to political power and collective memory, the cultural and material fluency of Qing objects and texts, multiplicity and self-fashioning through portraiture and dance, and conformity and authority in relation to selfhood and modern and contemporary art.
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Pages: 324
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: China Research Monograph
Publication Date: 13 July 2021
ISBN: 9781557291943
Format: eBook
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Contributors - vii
Acknowledgments - xi
Introduction - 1
Ellen Huang, Nancy G. Lin, Michelle McCoy, and Michelle H. Wang

1. The Economics of Myth: Historicizing Discourses on Metal, Soil, and Ritual under Han Wudi - 9
Filippo Marsili
2. The Portrait of Chinggis Khaan: Revisiting the Ancestral Connections - 34
Uranchimeg Tsultemin
3. A Life in Pictures: Landscape Biography in a Seventeenth-Century Parting Painting - 58
Elizabeth Kindall
4. Ineffable Gloss: Qing Ornament on Porcelain - 91
Ellen Huang and Mary Lewine
5. The Bejeweled Ascetic: Envisioning Tantric Embodiment in an Album from the Qing Court - 119
Rae Erin Dachille
6. Karmic Affinities: Rethinking Relations among Tibetan Lamas and the Qing Emperor - 158
Wen-shing Chou and Nancy G. Lin
7. Family and Nation: Qing and Meiji Imperial Family Portraits - 214
William Ma and Ryosuke Ueda
8. Ruth St. Denis as Bodhisattva: An Art Historical Perspective on the Appropriation of Buddhist Imagery - 243
Jon Soriano
9. Katsura Yuki and the Allegorical Impulse - 267
Namiko Kunimoto
10. Chun Kyung-ja and the Scandal of Beautiful Woman - 289
Sunglim Kim