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The Oxford Handbook of Early China
A chronological and interdisciplinary study of early China from the Neolithic through Warring States periods (ca 5000-500BCE).
Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion
Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion demonstrates that the concept of metamorphism was central to ancient Chinese religious belief and practices from at least the late Neolithic period through the Warring States Period of the Zhou dynasty. Central to the authors' argument is the ubiquitous motif in early Chinese figurative art, the metamorphic power mask. While the motif underwent stylistic variation over time, its formal properties remained stable, underscoring the image's ongoing religious centrality. It symbolized the metamorphosis, through the phenomenon of death, of royal personages from living humans to deceased ancestors who required worship and sacrificial offering...
Enduring Art of Jade Age China
Each volume is beautifully illustrated with color plates showcasing Neolithic, Shang, and Zhou jades recently exhibited at New York's Throckmorton Fine Art.
Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion
Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion demonstrates that the concept of metamorphism was central to ancient Chinese religious belief and practices from at least the late Neolithic period through the Warring States Period of the Zhou dynasty. Central to the authors' argument is the ubiquitous motif in early Chinese figurative art, the metamorphic power mask. While the motif underwent stylistic variation over time, its formal properties remained stable, underscoring the image’s ongoing religious centrality. It symbolized the metamorphosis, through the phenomenon of death, of royal personages from living humans to deceased ancestors who required worship and sacrificial offeri...
Liangzhu
Exhibition catalogue of Liangzhu Jades
The Meaning of the Graph Yi Yi and Its Implications for Shang Belief and Art
Uses a combination of written and graphic data to identify the meaning of the so-called taotie mask and the basis of Shang religion. By using paleographic and representational evidence, Childs-Johnson puts into perspective for the first time that Shang belief was not limited to the worship of royal dead ancestor spirits. She analyses the meaning of several pivotal oracle bone graphs, in particular yi, illustrating that Shang belief was founded on the concept of spirit metamorphosis. She identifies yi as meaning 'to undergo metamorphosis of/by a spirit.' This also underlies the meaning behind Shang ritual representations. These analyses explain that early Chinese belief embraces more than the worship of dead ancestor spirits, the setting for the birth of Chinese civilisation is more complex in incorporating the basic belief in the power to take on the power of another in the spirit realm. This study enriches our understanding of China's earliest dynastic period.
The River Dragon Has Come!
In the ongoing courageous struggle of a relatively small group of Chinese to prevent the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China, Dai Qing is the outspoken leader whose eloquent voice is always heard despite threats and intimidation by the Chinese authorities to silence it. Dai Qing, an investigative journalist and author with a wide audience in China and abroad, compiled this book of essays and field reports assessing the impact of the Three Gorges megadam now under construction at Sandouping in China's Hubei province at great risk to her own freedom. This book is an effort to prevent history from repeating itself ten-fold (a reference to the great floods in 1975 during which over 60 da...
The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture
China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. In modern times, the communist government frequently referred to Nationalists as “running dogs,” and President Xi Jinping, vowing to quell corruption at all levels, pledged to capture both “the tigers” and “the flies.” Splendidly illustrated with works ranging from Bronze Age vessels to twentieth-century conceptual pieces, this volume is a wide-ranging look at zoomorphic and anthropomorphic imagery in Chinese art. The contributors, leading scholars in Chines...
Fènghuáng
Show Catalogue of Chinese jade carvings of the mythical phoenix, so central to Chinese culture. There are in the exhibit jade carvings from nearly all the Chinese dynasties, beginning with the late neolithic culture of Hongshan, which dates from 4700 to 2900 BCE. The most recent examples are from the Qing Dynasty, dating from 1644 to 1912 CE. The exhibit reveals the evolution of the artistic view of the phoenix.
