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Picturing Heaven in Early China
Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng
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Description for Picturing Heaven in Early China
Hardback.
Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god, and later came to be regarded as a force driving the movement of the cosmos and as a home to deities and imaginary animals. By the Han dynasty, which saw an outpouring of visual materials depicting Heaven, the concept of Heaven encompassed an immortal realm to which humans could ascend after death.
Using excavated materials, Lillian Tseng shows how Han artisans transformed various notions of Heaven—as the mandate, the fantasy, and the sky—into ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674060692
SKU
V9780674060692
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About Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng is Associate Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Reviews for Picturing Heaven in Early China
This remarkable book readably represents a formidable effort of research, drawing on the rich studies of history, art, and paleography that have accumulated over centuries, and particularly on the last forty years of archeology. Lillian Lan-ying Tseng colligates images that no one earlier has studied side by side, and draws from them quite original conclusions. I find her arguments ambitious, ... Read more