TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zhang,Ying
TI  - Religion and prison art in Ming China (1368-1644): creative environment, creative subjects 
T2  - Brill research perspectives in religion and the arts
SN  - 9789004432604
AV  - NX164.P7 Z49 2020
U1  - 709.5109 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Prisoners as artists
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Prisoners as authors
KW  - Arts and religion
KW  - Art, Chinese
KW  - Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History
KW  - Class of Fall 2022
N1  - Includes bibliographical references. (pages 94-102); 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
N2  - 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 crystalizes 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
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