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Water Moon Reflections

Essays in Honor of Patricia Berger
by Ellen Huang (Editor), Nancy G. Lin (Editor), Michelle H. Wang (Editor), Michelle McCoy (Editor)
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Price: $44.00 / £37.00
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher:
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 324
ISBN: 9781557291936
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Series:
  • China Research Monograph
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About the Book

Spanning two millennia and East and Inner Asia, this volume's essays highlight Patricia Berger's vast range of expertise as well as general themes that run through her work. Topics include art's relationship to political power and collective memory, the cultural and material fluency of Qing objects and texts, multiplicity and self-fashioning through portraiture and dance, and conformity and authority in relation to selfhood and modern and contemporary art.

About the Author

Ellen Huang is Associate Professor of material culture at ArtCenter College of Design.
Education: PhD, University of California San Diego

Nancy G. Lin is Associate Professor of Tibetan and South Asian Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley.
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Michelle McCoy is Assistant Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian art at the University of Pittsburgh.
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Michelle H. Wang is Assistant Professor of Art and Humanities at Reed College.
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Contributors - vii
Acknowledgments - xi
Introduction - 1
Ellen Huang, Nancy G. Lin, Michelle McCoy, and Michelle H. Wang

1. The Economics of Myth: Historicizing Discourses on Metal, Soil, and Ritual under Han Wudi - 9
Filippo Marsili
2. The Portrait of Chinggis Khaan: Revisiting the Ancestral Connections - 34
Uranchimeg Tsultemin
3. A Life in Pictures: Landscape Biography in a Seventeenth-Century Parting Painting - 58
Elizabeth Kindall
4. Ineffable Gloss: Qing Ornament on Porcelain - 91
Ellen Huang and Mary Lewine
5. The Bejeweled Ascetic: Envisioning Tantric Embodiment in an Album from the Qing Court - 119
Rae Erin Dachille
6. Karmic Affinities: Rethinking Relations among Tibetan Lamas and the Qing Emperor - 158
Wen-shing Chou and Nancy G. Lin
7. Family and Nation: Qing and Meiji Imperial Family Portraits - 214
William Ma and Ryosuke Ueda
8. Ruth St. Denis as Bodhisattva: An Art Historical Perspective on the Appropriation of Buddhist Imagery - 243
Jon Soriano
9. Katsura Yuki and the Allegorical Impulse - 267
Namiko Kunimoto
10. Chun Kyung-ja and the Scandal of Beautiful Woman - 289
Sunglim Kim