Through a forest of chancellors : fugitive histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an illustrated book from seventeenth-century Suzhou /

Burkus, Anne Gail.

Through a forest of chancellors : fugitive histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an illustrated book from seventeenth-century Suzhou / Fugitive histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an illustrated book from seventeenth-century Suzhou Ling yan ge Anne Burkus-Chasson = Ling yan ge, Liu Yuan jing hui. - xxx, 378 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm - Harvard-Yenching Institute monographs ; 66 .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-356) and index.

The composition of the book. The gallery of portraits re-created -- Liu Yuan's cover leaf -- Prefatory autographs -- The preface writers license the pictorial book -- The list of contents -- Lingyan ge, the historical site -- Composing the vassal's figure -- Unordinary images -- Physiognomic fantasies -- Costumes in disarray -- Under the guise of bandits -- The act of turning the leaf -- Structures of the book -- Re-reading Du Fu -- The damask at leaf's edge -- The publication of the book. Painter, publisher, reader-viewer : whose gallery? -- The "social drama" of the Ming-Qing transition -- Liu Yuan and Tong Pengnian -- A model for community : echoing voices among the preface writers -- Climbing Yingzhou : Wu Weiye's response -- Vexations of passage -- Variant endings -- Maxims, furtively impressed -- In the hands of all the masters -- From manuscript to printed book --- Appendix. Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, with annotated translations.

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Liu, Yuan, active 1668 --Criticism and interpretation.
Liu, Yuan, active 1668. Ling yan ge gong chen tu.


Art and literature--History--China--17th century.
Illustrated books--History--China--17th century.
Block books, Chinese.

NE1183.5.L6 / B87 2010

002.0951