Song dynasty figures of longing and desire : gender and interiority in Chinese painting and poetry
by
Blanchard, Lara C. W., author.
Title
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Song dynasty figures of longing and desire : gender and interiority in Chinese painting and poetry
Women and gender in China studies,
Women and gender in China studies.
Author
:
Blanchard, Lara C. W., author.
ISBN
:
9789004362789
Personal Author
:
Blanchard, Lara C. W., author.
Publication Information
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Physical Description
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xi, 319 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series
:
Women and gender in China studies, volume 10
Women and gender in China studies.
Contents
:
Gendered subjectivity and representing interiority. Subjectivity and authorship : women poets, erotic personae, and female subjectivity -- Women painters and images of women -- Cross-dressing and authenticity -- Pictorial representations of inner feelings -- Modes of representing emotion in figure painting -- Melding of feeling and scene -- Interiority and the inner quarters -- Courtly and literati audiences : evidence from commentaries -- Political interpretations of desire. Handscrolls of Goddess of the Luo River -- Compositions of the Song Dynasty paintings -- Reading desire and rejection -- The Beijing handscroll Night revels of Han Xizai -- Singing girls in Tang and Song texts -- Content of the Beijing Scroll -- Early assessments of Han Xizai's character -- Political interpretations of Night revels -- Night revels and pictorial cross-dressing -- Male audience and authorship : projecting desire and longing onto the female figure. Huizong's Court ladies preparing newly woven silk -- Pounding silk and women's work -- Zhang Xuan's painting and Huizong's copy -- Mou Yi's Pounding cloth -- Visualizing a palace-style poem -- Text and interpretation -- The Female Audience : Modeling Idealized Femininity. Women and fan paintings -- Acquiring fans painted with lonely women -- The enclosed garden -- Mirrors, makeup, interiority, and performing femininity -- Ladies adorning their hair with flowers : a bed-screen?
Subject Term
:
Women in art.
Women in literature.
Sex (Psychology) in art.
Sex (Psychology) in literature.
Painting, Chinese -- Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368 -- Themes, motives.
Chinese poetry -- Song dynasty, 960-1279 -- History and criticism.
Bibliographical References
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index.
Field 805
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npmlib 10900343 11003369(c.2) N7630 B58 ysh
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NPM Library | N7630 B58 2018 | 10900343 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |
NPMSB | N7630 B58 2018 | 11003369 | 1 | B | Being transferred between libraries |