Research Catalog

Title

Through a forest of chancellors : fugitive histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an illustrated book from seventeenth-century Suzhou / Anne Burkus-Chasson.

Author

Burkus, Anne Gail

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Liu, Yuan, active 1668.

Description

xxx, 378 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Series Statement

Harvard-Yenching Institute monographs ; 66

Uniform Title

Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 66.

Alternative Title

Fugitive histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an illustrated book from seventeenth-century Suzhou

Subjects

• Illustrated books > China > History > 17th century
• Liu, Yuan, active 1668 > Ling yan ge gong chen tu
• Block books, Chinese
• Art and literature > China > History > 17th century
• Liu, Yuan, active 1668 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-356) and index.

Contents

The composition of the book -- The gallery of portraits re-created -- Liu Yuan's cover leaf -- Prefatory autographs -- The preface writers license the pictorial book -- The list of contents -- Lingyan ge, the historical site -- Composing the vassal's figure -- Unordinary images -- Physiognomic fantasies -- Costumes in disarray -- Under the guise of bandits -- The act of turning the leaf -- Structures of the book -- Re-reading Du Fu -- The damask at leaf's edge -- The publication of the book -- Painter, publisher, reader-viewer : whose gallery? -- The "social drama" of the Ming-Qing transition -- Liu Yuan and Tong Pengnian -- A model for community : echoing voices among the preface writers -- Climbing Yingzhou : Wu Weiye's response -- Vexations of passage -- Variant endings -- Maxims, furtively impressed -- In the hands of all the masters -- From manuscript to printed book --- Appendix. Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge with annotated translations -- Reference matter -- Notes -- Works cited -- Character list -- Index.

Call Number

JFF 10-658

ISBN

• 9780674032804 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0674032802 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009034925

OCLC

319204837

Author

Burkus, Anne Gail.

Title

Through a forest of chancellors : fugitive histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an illustrated book from seventeenth-century Suzhou / Anne Burkus-Chasson.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2010.

Series

Harvard-Yenching Institute monographs ; 66

Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 66.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-356) and index.

Added Author

Liu, Yuan, active 1668. Ling yan ge gong chen tu.

Research Call Number

JFF 10-658