Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368-1644)

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43260-4
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, 102 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 170 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Ying

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368–1644)

Creative Environment, Creative Subjects

Ying Zhang

Abstract

Keywords

Cast of Characters

Introduction

Part 1

1 Creative Nature and the Calendar in Prison Poetry

2 The Self in Nature, Ritual, and Poetry

Part 2

3 The Literati Art of Living in Confinement

4 The Art of Living: Nourishing Life, Transcending the Form

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Ying Zhang, Ph.D. (2010, University of Michigan), is Associate Professor of Premodern Chinese History at Ohio State University. She has published on the political and cultural history of early modern China, including Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China (University of Washington Press, 2017).