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Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368-1644): Creative Environment, Creative Subjects

Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368-1644): Creative Environment, Creative Subjects

Zhang, Ying

Paperback

Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences

Art HistoryReligion General

ISBN10: 9004432604
ISBN13: 9789004432604
Publisher: Brill
Published: May 1 2020
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.91 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
Approaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture. The Ming is known for its extraordinary cultural and economic accomplishments in the increasingly globalized early modern world. For scholars of Chinese religion and art, this era crystallizes the essential and enduring characteristics in these two spheres. Drawing on scholarship on Chinese philosophy, religion, aesthetics, poetry, music, and visual and material culture, Zhang illustrates how the prisoners understood their environment as creative and engaged it creatively. She then offers a literature survey on the characteristics of premodern Chinese religion and art that helps situate the questions of creative environment and creative subject within multiple fields of scholarship.

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