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Chinese Steles : Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form by Dorothy C. Wong (2004, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press

ISBN-10082482783X

ISBN-139780824827830

eBay Product ID (ePID)18038849375

Product Key Features

Number of Pages248 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameChinese Steles : Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form

SubjectArchaeology, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Asia / China

Publication Year2004

TypeTextbook

AuthorDorothy C. Wong

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight32.1 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width8.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2004-005998

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsAn exceptional work, useful for those unfamiliar with the genre of steles yet thorough enough to satisfy a scholarly need for depth ... Extremely thorough in its analysis and clear in its approach, An elegant volume, amply illustrated, and the photographs are on the whole very clear, carefully placed in the text, and well elucidated

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal931/.04

SynopsisBuddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386-581). More than two hundred Chinese Buddhist steles are known to have survived. Their brilliant imagery has long captivated scholars, yet until now the Buddhist stele as a unique art form has received little scholarly attention. Dorothy Wong rectifies that insufficiency by providing in this well-illustrated volume the first comprehensive investigation of this group of Buddhist monuments. She traces the ancient roots of the Chinese stele tradition and investigates the process by which Chinese steles were adapted for Buddhist use. She arranges the known corpus of Buddhist steles into broad chronological and regional groupings and analyzes not only their form and content but also the nexus of complex issues surrounding this art form--from cultural symbolism to the interrelations between religious doctrine and artistic expression, economic production, patronage, and the synthesis of native and foreign art styles. In her analysis of Buddhism's dialogue with native traditions, Wong demonstrates how the Chinese artistic idiom planted the seeds for major achievements in figural and landscape arts in the ensuing Sui and Tang periods.

LC Classification NumberDS719.W65 2004