Author(s): Alfreda Murck
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Centre
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 433
City: Cambridge
Tags: Song Dynasty, China, Art history, history of art,
Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent
Acknowledgments
Contents
Maps and Figures
Dates of Chinese Dynasties and Selected Rulers
Maps
Introduction
1 A Millennium of XiaoXiang Laments
Sage-King Shun and His Faithful Wives
Qu Yuan
Song Yu
Jia Yi
Wang Yi
Yu Xin
Shen Quanqi
Zhang Yue
Li Bo
Du Fu
Han Yu
Liu Zongyuan
2 A Defining Moment: Shenzong's Reign (1067-85)
Early Song Political Culture
Emperor Shenzong Implements the New Policies
A Painting Celebrates New Beginnings (1072)
A Painting Admonishes the Emperor (1074)
The Case of the Loyal Official Song Di
The Luoyang Exiles
The Crow Terrace Poetry Trial (1079)
3 Infusing Painting with Poetry
The Importance of Du Fu
Encoding Poetry
Song Di' s Creation of the Eight Views of XiaoXiang
Literary Characteristics of the Eight Views of XiaoXiang Titles
4 Exile, Return, and Dissonance
Unjust Exile: Wild Geese Descend
Reprieve: A Sail Returns
Mountain Markets and Du Fu's Autumn Day in Kui Prefecture
5 Confronting Melancholy: Evening, Night, and Autumn
River and Sky, Evening Snow
Autumn Moon over Dongting
Night Rain on XiaoXiang
Evening Bell from a Mist-Shrouded Temple
Fishing Village in Evening Glow
Tree Leaves Fal
Level-Distance Landscapes
6 Su Shi and Wang Shen: Misty River, Layered Peaks
Su Shi Encodes a Poem
Wang Shen Rhymes a Response
Su Shi Writes After Drinking
Wang Shen Responds with Thanks
Misty River, Layered Peaks, Attributed to Wang Shen
A Manuscript of the Four Poems
7 Huang Tingjian' s Laments
Career and Political Exiles
Wind in the Pines, 1102
Calligraphy
Monk Zhongren's Painted Plums, 1104
8 Proclaiming Harmony: The Court's Visual Rhetoric
Huizong's Ascension
Paintings Proclaiming Harmony
Era of Peace and Order
Writing for the Emperor: Guo Si and Han Zhuo
9 Wang Hong's Eight Views of XiaoXiang
The Chan MonkJuefan Huihong
Wang Hong Paints Like a Poet
Audience
10 New Uses of the Past
Dream Journey over XiaoXiang
Ma Yuan and the Eight Views of XiaoXiang
Ma Yuan and Zhang Zi' s Poetry Gathering
A Succession Crisis, a Banishment, and Spurious Learning
"Seventh Month" from the Odes of Bin
The Buddhist Monks Muqi and Yujian
Epilogue
Appendixes
A Dti Fu Texts and Translations
B SuShi's and Wang Shen's Matching of Du Fu's Rhymes
C Huang Tingjian's Matching of Du Fu's Rhymes
D Eight Views of XiaoXiang Poetry by Buddhist Monks
Reference Matter
Notes
Bibliography
Character List
Index
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