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

Through a forest of chancellors : fugitive histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an illustrated book from seventeenth-century Suzhou / Anne Burkus-Chasson = Ling yan ge, Liu Yuan jing hui.

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By: Burkus, Anne Gail
Contributor(s): Liu, Yuan, active 1668. Ling yan ge gong chen tu
Series: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachuetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2010Description: xxx, 378 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674032804Other title: 凌煙閣 Other title: Fugitive histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an illustrated book from seventeenth-century Suzhou | Ling yan geSubject(s): Liu, Yuan, active 1668 -- Criticism and interpretation | Liu, Yuan, active 1668. Ling yan ge gong chen tu | Art and literature -- China -- History -- 17th century | Illustrated books -- China -- History -- 17th century | Block books, ChineseDDC classification: 002.0951 LOC classification: NE1183.5.L6 | B87 2010
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Asia China NE1183.5.L6 B87 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 105464
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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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