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Religion and prison art in Ming China (1368-1644) : creative environment, creative subjects / by Ying Zhang.

Title
Religion and prison art in Ming China (1368-1644) : creative environment, creative subjects / by Ying Zhang.
Author
Zhang, Ying (History teacher),
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

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102 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
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 crystalizes 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.
Series Statement
Brill research perspectives in religion and the arts
Uniform Title
Brill research perspectives. Religion and the arts.
Subject
  • 1368-1912
  • Art and religion > China > History
  • Art and religion
  • Art, Chinese > Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912 > History
  • Art, Chinese > Ming-Qing dynasties
  • China
  • Prisoners as artists > China > History
  • Prisoners as artists
  • Prisoners as authors > China > History
  • Prisoners as authors
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-102)
ISBN
  • 9789004432604
  • 9004432604
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries