The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China

ISBN-13: 9780367335687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 292 str.

Roslyn Lee Hammers

Opis

This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by successive Chinese emperors.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Ennobling Agrarian Work of the Qing Emperors 1. The Kangxi Emperor Reworks the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving 2. The Noble Labors of the Yongzheng Emperor 3. The Preoccupation of the Qianlong Emperor 4.The Sagacious Vocation of the Qianlong Emperor Epilogue. Working Toward Closure, the Jiaqing Emperor Reforms Imperial Labor Appendix A. Imperially composed poems for the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving  Appendix B. Primary documents related to the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving and agrarian labor

O autorze

Roslyn Lee Hammers is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong.