Author: Weizu SunPublisher: LONG RIVER PRESS
ISBN: 9781592650132
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Historical guide to Chinese seals, or "chops," and their various uses in business, art, and government.
Chinese Seals
Author: Weizu SunPublisher: LONG RIVER PRESS
ISBN: 9781592650132
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Historical guide to Chinese seals, or "chops," and their various uses in business, art, and government.
Word as Image
Author: Jason C. KuoPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A catalogue and accompaniment to an exhibition at the China House Gallery, New York City, October to December 1992, which focused on Chinese seal as works of art related to calligraphy, rather than to their role in authenticating paintings. The pieces range from the 3rd (at least) century B.C. to the 1950s. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Port
Notes of Chinese seals found in Ireland
Author: Edmund GettyChinese Seals
Author: T. C. LaiPublisher:
ISBN: 9780295955179
Category : Seals (Numismatics)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Notices of Chinese Seals Found in Ireland
Author: Edmund GettyThe Chinese Chop Pack
Author: Robin TzannesPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811835831
Category : Calligraphy, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Chinese chops are an age-old name-signing method for art, official documents, and letters. This kit brings together everything you need to personalize your own creations in this traditional style. The high-quality wooden box holds eight beautifully carved chops for words such as "harmony", "wisdom", and "longevity", and an ink pad. Also inlcuded is an 80-page book that traces the history and significance behind Chinese chops.
Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China
Author: Mark McNicholasPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political transgressions.
Chinese Seals
Author: Kecheng NiuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seals (Numismatics)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
In ancient China, Emperors used seals to proclaim their decrees to their people, officials used seals to exercise their power, merchants used seals to demonstrate their credibility, land-lords used seals to protect their small properties. Gradually, seals became the representative and evidence of personal identity, and even today Chinese are still using seals.
The Marshes of Mount Liang: The broken seals
Author: Nai'an ShiPublisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 9789622016026
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
When Marshal Hong breaks the seals which generations of Taoist Masters have placed on the temple doors to hold back 108 incarcerated Demon Princes, powerful forces of disorder are released. One after another, brave men fall out with officialdom and are obliged to join the brotherhood of the rivers and lakes-the mixed company of heroes and vagabonds who live by their wits and their fighting skills. The story of The Broken Seals branches this way and that, following first one hero, then another, as their paths converge and part, until finally 108 brave-but not entirely admirable-men are united at the outlaws' stronghold in the Marshes of Mount Liang. The story takes us through the vast landscape of imperial China. We hear of epic duels, gargantuan feasts, and cunning ambushes, and we witness injustice, betrayal, murder and revenge. We are told also of the beauty of the moon during Mid-Autumn Festival or of the snow, crisp underfoot on a stormy night in the country. This volume consists of the first twenty-two chapters of the full 120-chapter version of the classic Chinese novel by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong. It is the first English translation based on this version and including much of the verse. It offers the English reader something of the liveliness and humour of a work which has delighted generations of Chinese readers.
Islamic Chinoiserie
Author: Kadoi Yuka KadoiPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474469671
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Mongol invasion in the thirteenth century marked a new phase in the development of Islamic art. Trans-Eurasian exchanges of goods, people and ideas were encouraged on a large scale under the auspices of the Pax Mongolica. With the fascination of portable objects brought from China and Central Asia, a distinctive, hitherto unknown style - Islamic chinoiserie - was born in the art of Iran.Highly illustrated, Islamic Chinoiserie offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic interaction between Iran and China under the Mongols. By using rich visual materials from various media of decorative and pictorial arts - textiles, ceramics, metalwork and manuscript painting - the book illustrates the process of adoption and adaptation of Chinese themes in the art of Mongol-ruled Iran in a visually compelling way. The observation of this unique artistic phenomenon serves to promote the understanding of the artistic diversity of Islamic art in the Middle Ages.Key Features*Covers various media of decorative and pictorial arts from Iran, Central Asia and China*Deals with a diverse range of issues related to the East-West artistic relationship in the Middle Ages*Features in-depth studies of style, technique and iconography in Iranian art under the Mongols*Includes 125 illustrations, 24 in colour