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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Ying (History teacher), author.

Series:

Brill research perspectives. Religion and the arts ; 3.3.

Brill research perspectives in religion and the arts ; 3.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners as artists--China--History.

Prisoners as artists.

Arts in prisons--China.

Arts in prisons.

Art and religion--China--History.

Art and religion.

China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

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 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.

Contents:

Creative nature and the calendar in prison poetry

The self in nature, ritual, and poetry

The literati art of living in confinement

The art of living : nourishing life, transcending the form.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-43229-9

OCLC:

1153081021

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004432291 DOI