Social Life of Inkstones - Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China

Dorothy Ko is professor of history at Barnard College. She is the author of Cinderella¿s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding and coeditor of The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Conventions

Chinese Dynasties and Periods

Map of China

Introduction

1. The Palace Workshops: The Emperor and His Servants

2. Yellow Hill Villages: The Stonecutters

3. Suzhou: The Crafts(wo)man

4. Beyond Suzhou: Gu Erniang the Super-Brand

5. Fuzhou: The Collectors

Epilogue: The Craft of Wen

Appendix 1: Inkstones Made by Gu Erniang Mentioned in Textual Sources Contemporary to Gu

Appendix 2: Inkstones Bearing Signature Marks of Gu Erniang in Major Museum Collections

Appendix 3: Members of the Fuzhou Circle

Appendix 4: Textual History of Lin Fuyun's Inkstone Chronicle (Yanshi)

Appendix 5: Chinese Texts

Notes

Glossary of Chinese Characters

References

Index

About the author

Dorothy Ko

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy Ko, Dorothy (Columbia University) Ko
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9780295999180
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99918-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: The Social Life of Inkstones
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous