Li Becoming Guanyin

Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-54873-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Premodern East Asia: New Horizons

Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion, arguing that women used their own bodies to echo that of Guanyin. She combines empirical research with theoretical insights from both art history and Buddhist studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Li, Yuhang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Introduction: Gendered Materialization of Guanyin
1. Dancing Guanyin: The Transformative Body and Buddhist Courtesans
2. Painting Guanyin with Brush and Ink: Negotiating Confucianism and Buddhism
3. Embroidering Guanyin with Hair: Efficacious Pain and Skill
4. Mimicking Guanyin with Hairpins: Jewelry as a Means of Transcendence
Conclusion: From Home to Temple and Court: Restaging Women’s Devotional Objects
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Li Yuhang:
Yuhang Li (P.h.D, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Chicago) is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the coauthor (with Judith Zeitlin) of Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture (Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, 2014) and has published articles in Nannü: Men, Women, and Gender in China and Journal of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine. She has also held postdoctoral appointments at the Department of Art History at Yale, Grinnell (Mellon Fellowship), and the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School.Yuhang Li is an assistant professor of Chinese art in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She cocurated with Judith Zeitlin the exhibition Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture and coedited the resulting catalog based on the exhibition.