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The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
- Trading Places: An Introduction to Zoomorphism and Anthropomorphism in Chinese Art
- chapter 1. The Taotie Motif on Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes
- chapter 2. Labeling the Creatures: Some Problems in Han and Six Dynasties Iconography
- chapter 3. Representing the Twelve Calendrical Animals as Beastly, Human, and Hybrid Beings in Medieval China
- chapter 4. The Didactic Use of Animal Images in Southern Song Buddhism: The Case of Mount Baoding in Dazu, Sichuan
- chapter 5. Evil Dragon, Golden Rodent, Sleek Hound: The Evolution of Soushan Tu Paintings in the Northern Song Period
- chapter 6. Animals in Chinese Rebus Paintings
- chapter 7. The Pictorial Form of a Zoomorphic Ecology: Dragons and Their Painters in Song and Southern Song China
- chapter 8. The Political Animal: Metaphoric Rebellion in Zhao Yong’s Painting of Heavenly Horses
- chapter 9. How the Giraffe Became a Qilin: Intercultural Signification in Ming Dynasty Arts
- chapter 10. Weird Science: European Origins of the Fantastic Creatures in the Qing Court Painting, the Manual of Sea Oddities
- chapter 11. Huang Yong Ping and the Power of Zoomorphic Ambiguity
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index