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Gods of Mount Tai : familiarity and the material culture of North China, 1000-2000 / Susan Naquin.
Van Pelt Library DS797.72.T352 N38 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naquin, Susan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gods, Chinese--History.
- Gods, Chinese.
- Antiquities.
- Religion.
- Tai Mountains (China)--Religion--History.
- Tai Mountains (China).
- Tai Mountains (China)--Antiquities.
- China--Tai Mountains.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 538 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netheerlands : Brill, [2022]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. What This Book Is About
- The Importance of Place
- The Conventions of Time
- Scholarship, Sources, and Methods
- Chinese Religion: Basic Issues
- Using Material Culture
- The Power of Familiarity
- What's Next
- pt. ONE SETTLING IN
- 2. Mount Tai, 1008
- The Great Eastern Peak: Mount Tai
- A Great Convergence of Propitious Portents, 1008
- The Religious Landscape around 1000
- Empowerment through Patronage, 1008-1012
- Female Gods
- 3. The Jade Woman and the Eastern Peak, 1000-1350
- At the Great Eastern Peak
- The Jade Woman Shrine
- Beyond the Mountain
- Gods on the Move
- Looking Like Mount Tai's Jade Woman
- 4. Master of the Azure Clouds, 1350-1550
- Ming Reunification
- Recasting the Eastern Peak
- The Jade Woman Transformed
- Not Alone
- Becoming a Mother
- pt. TWO EXPANSION AND ACCEPTANCE
- 5. Beyond Mount Tai, 1400-1640
- Moving Beyond the Mountain
- Homes Away from Home
- Yuanjun's "Territory"
- Building New Homes
- Seeing Bixia Yuanjun
- 6. Toward Acceptance, 1400-1640
- Spreading the Word
- Gatekeepers
- Elite Ambivalence
- 7. Investing in the Mountain, 1550-1630
- Imperial Patrons
- The Incense Tax
- Empress Dowager Li
- More Patrons, New Sights
- Elite Tourism
- pt. THREE AT HOME IN NORTH CHINA
- 8. A Pilgrimage Mountain, 1550-1640
- The Language of Pilgrimage
- Going to Mount Tai
- Expenses
- Pilgrim Experiences
- An Iconography for Bixia Yuanjun
- 9. Looking Like a Mount Tai Niangniang, Ming to Qing
- Images of Gods
- The Jade Woman in Stone
- Dissemination in Clay
- Assemblages in Wood
- Outfitting with Iron
- Material and Cultural Limits
- 10. Prospering Under a New Dynasty, 1600-1900
- From Ming to Qing
- The State and Mount Tai
- Imperial Patrons, Qing Style
- Pilgrims and Visitors
- Into the Nineteenth Century
- 11. A Place in the Empire, 1650-1900
- A Zone of Her Own?
- A Place in the Empire
- Neighbors and Rivals
- Sojourners in the North
- 12. At Home in North China, 1650-1900
- Satellite Centers
- Xun County and the Northern Capital
- In a Sea of Other Gods
- pt. FOUR BECOMING TOO FAMILIAR?
- 13. The Bronze Ladies of Mount Tai, 1600-1900
- Bronze Statues of the Taishan Niangniang
- The Bronze Economy
- Size and Body
- Age and Gender
- Time and Space
- 14. Popularization through Pictures, 1800-1930
- Pigment, Fabric, and Paper
- Paintings for Temples and Homes
- Woodblock Prints of Gods
- Geographic Diversity
- Into the North China Pantheon
- Problems of Identity
- 15. Changing Times for Mount Tai, 1900-2000
- Interregnum
- In the People's Republic
- Looking Ahead
- Appendices
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789004504257
- 9004504257
- OCLC:
- 1308689758
- Publisher Number:
- 99991143728
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