Accumulating culture:the collections of Emperor Huizong
Saved in:
Main Authors: | |
---|---|
Published: |
University of Washington Press,
|
Publisher Address: | Seattle |
Publication Dates: | c2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
A China program book |
Subjects: | |
Carrier Form: | xxii, 495 p., [32] p. of plates: ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780295987781 (cloth : alk. paper) 0295987782 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | J120 |
CLC: | J120.944.1 |
Call Number: | J120.944.1/E168 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-473) and index. Early song precedents -- Strains in emperor-literati relations during the reform era -- Collecting as a scholarly passion during the Northern Song period -- Huizong as a collector -- Managing the collections at the palace library -- Collecting and cataloguing antiquities -- Collecting and cataloguing calligraphy -- Collecting and cataloguing paintings -- The fate of Huizong's collections. This is an illustrated examination of a collection of Chinese calligraphy, paintings, bronzes, and many other objects amassed by the Song dynasty emperor Huizong (1082-1135). It contributes to a rethinking of the cultural side of Chinese imperial rule and of the court as a patron of scholars and the arts. |