Author: Wu HungPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804720168
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Wu Liang Shrine
Author: Wu HungPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804720168
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Wu Liang Shrine
Author: Wu HungPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804715294
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The funerary shrine of the Confucian scholar Wu Liang, created in AD 151, is the most important surviving pre-Buddhist monument in China. That is to say, it is the most important single work of visual art from the centuries that set the patterns of Chinese thought for almost two millennia. The importance of the shrine lies in the beauty of the stone reliefs on its walls and, especially, in the remarkably comprehensive iconography of its nearly one hundred scenes. They constitute, in effect, a coherent symbolic structure of the universe as the Han Chinese conceived it. This structure consists of three sections: the ceiling carvings present the Mandate of Heaven; the scenes on the two gables depict the paradise of the immortals; and the 44 stories related on the walls illustrate the history of mankind, starting with the creators of human culture and ending with a portrait of Wu Liang, who designed his own memorial. The author finds the shrine comparable, in the comprehensiveness and cultural significance of its iconography, to the cathedral at Chartres or the Sistine Chapel.
The Wu Liang Ci and Eastern Han Offering Shrines
Author: Hung WuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Relief (Sculpture), Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 1518
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The Offering Shrines of "Wu Liang Tz'ǔ".
Author: Wilma FairbankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shrines
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Wu Liang Ci and Eastern Han Offering Shrines
Author: Wu HungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Relief (Sculpture), Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 1518
Book Description
Han Dynasty Stone Reliefs
Author: Xingzhen LiuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shrines
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Kinney
Author: Anne Behnke KinneyPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824816810
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Chinese in the twentieth century, intent on modernizing their country, condemned their inherited culture in part on the grounds that it was oppressive to the young. The authors of this pioneering volume provide us with the evidence to re-examine those charges. Drawing on sources ranging from art to medical treatises, fiction, and funerary writings, they separate out the many complexities in the Chinese cultural construction of childhood and the ways it has changed over time. listening to how Chinese talked about children - whether their own child, the abstract child in need of education or medical care, the ideal precocious child, or the fictional child - lets us assess in concrete terms the structures and values that underlay Chinese life. -- Patricia Buckley Ebrey, University of Illinois
The Offering Shrines of "Wu Liang Tz'ŭ."
Author: Wilma Fairbank“The” Offering Shrines of "Wu Liang T'zu"
Author: Wilma FairbankThe Wu Liang Ancestral Shrines
Author: Ann Fleming BradburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shandong Sheng (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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