This title helps you in creating spiritual spaces in your environment with altars and shrines, space clearing and the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui. You can transform your living space with the ancient principles of Feng Shui and space clearing, and enhance the harmony of your house. It offers advice on every level, from how to position the furniture and what shades to paint the walls, to clearing psychic clutter with placement of mirrors and lights. You can learn to sense negative energy, mo...
A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China (Philosophy and Cultural Identity)
by Mary Bittner Wiseman
In A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China, Mary Bittner Wiseman shows that material matters in the work of Chinese artists, where the goal is to call attention to its subjects through the directness and immediacy of its material, like dust from 9/11, 1001 Chinese citizens, paintings made with gunpowder, written words, or the specificity of its sites, like the Three Gorges Dam. Artists are working below the level of language where matter and gesture, texture and touch, instinct and intuiti...
This comprehensive, introductory book covers the essentials of Chinese massage (Tui na), including the fundamental principles of Chinese medicine, and the 20 basic massage techniques. It also includes treatment advice for 12 common ailments, so that the reader can practice what he or she has learnt to good effect. The book covers:* Instruction on 20 specialized massage techniques* How to locate over 50 points to treat specific problems* How to combine massage with Qi Gong...
Spanning more than 5,000 years, from the Prehistoric and Bronze periods through the various dynasties to the twentieth century and today, The Story of Chinese Art is a magnificent, visually rich collection of artwork that offers an unprecedented look into the vast cultural history of China. The home to some of the world's oldest and most distinguished works of art, China has a long, prestigious culture rich in ancient techniques and traditions. Today, the market for Chinese art-both ancient and...
China's art objects and traditionally manufactured products have long been sought by collectors-from porcelains and silk fabrics to furniture and even the lacquered chopsticks that are a distant relation to ones found in most Chinese restaurants. Things Chinese presents sixty distinctive items that are typical of Chinese culture and together open a special window onto the people, history, and society of the world's largest nation. Many of the objects are collectibles, and each has a story to tel...
The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) court. Porcelain for the Emperor charts the career of bannerman Tang Ying, a technocrat in the porcelain industry, through the first half of the eighteenth century to uncover the wider role of specialist officials in producing the technological knowledge and distinctive artistic forms that were essential to cultural p...
A martial art, tai chi is gentle, yet effective exercise. Focusing on coordination, rhythm, and breathing, tai chi integrates the body as a balanced whole. New Perspectives: Tai Chi is an essential introduction to this ancient art, and includes approximately 100 illustrations to ensure proper posture and safety.
Ming Dynasty Colour-Printed Erotica
by Christer Von der Burg, James Cahill, Soeren Edgren, Craig Clunas, Pingsheng Song, Cuncun Wu, Lianxi Weng, Chao Wang, and Hiromitsu Kobayashi
Exuberant, ornate and colourful, Straits Chinese porcelain is a variety of polychrome enameled export ware made to specification in China during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the use of the Straits-born Chinese or Peranakan communities in Penang, Malacca and Singapore. Often called Nyonya ware after the Nyonyas or womenfolk of this unique subcategory of Chinese whose ancestors first settled in Malacca in the fifteenth century, it was used on festive occasions and for special f...
Children in Chinese Art
Depictions of children have had a prominent place in Chinese art since the Song period (960-1279). Yet one would be hard pressed to find any significant discussion of children in art in the historical documents of imperial China or contemporary scholarship on Chinese art. Children in Chinese Art brings to the forefront themes and motifs that have crossed social boundaries for centuries but have been overlooked in scholarly treatises. In this volume, experts in the fields of art, religion, litera...
China and the West
With contributions from outstanding specialists in glass art and East Asian art history, this edited volume opens a cross-cultural dialogue on the hitherto little-studied medium of Chinese reverse glass painting. The first major survey of this form of East Asian art, the volume traces its long history, its local and global diffusion, and its artistic and technical characteristics. Manufactured for export to Europe and for local consumption within China, the fragile artworks studied in this volum...
The Efficacious Landscape (Harvard East Asian Monographs) (Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP))
by Foong Ping
Ink landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and painters of this era produced some of the most celebrated artworks in Chinese history. The Efficacious Landscape addresses how landmark works of this pivotal period first came to be identified as potent symbols of imperial authority and later became objects through which exiled scholars expressed disaffection and dissent. In fulfilling these diverse roles, landscape demonstrated its efficacy in communicating through embodi...
The art of bonsai is widely known in the West: from the Karate Kid to the American Bonsai Association and even local grocery stores, bonsai has become a common sight in the States. But bonsai, the Japanese art of creating miniature trees, actually originated in China, where it's called penjing. Penjing, meaning "tray scenery," is a traditional Chinese art of creating miniature potted landscapes including trees and other plants. Brought from China to Japan in ancient times before spreading to the...
Constructed over a millennium from the fourth to fourteenth centuries CE near Dunhuang, an ancient border town along the Silk Road in northwest China, the Mogao Caves comprise the largest, most continuously created, and best-preserved treasure trove of Buddhist art in the world. Previous overviews of the art of Dunhuang have traced the caves' unilinear history. This book examines the caves from the perspective of space, treating them as physical and historical sites that can be approached, enter...
(This title was originally published in 1980/81.)
Modern Reader on the Chinese Classics of Flower Arrangement
by Yuan Hongdao and Zhang Qiande
In China, flower arrangement is a venerable art with records dating back to the early Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Warring States Period-roughly between 11th century BC and 3rd century BC. This volume brings together two celebrated Ming Dynasty texts, On Vase Flower Arrangement by Zhang Qiande (1577-1643) and History of Vases by Yuan Hongdao (1568-1610). The latter of which was translated into Japanese and deeply impacted that country's tradition of flower arrangement. Un...