TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burkus,Anne Gail
AU  - Liu,Yuan
TI  - Through a forest of chancellors: fugitive histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an illustrated book from seventeenth-century Suzhou 
T2  - Harvard-Yenching Institute monographs
SN  - 9780674032804
AV  - NE1183.5.L6 B87 2010
U1  - 002.0951 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachuetts
PB  - Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Distributed by Harvard University Press
KW  - Liu, Yuan,
KW  - Art and literature
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Illustrated books
KW  - Block books, Chinese
N1  - 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
ER  -