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Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368â1644)
Creative Environment, Creative Subjects
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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 crystallizes 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 âcreative environmentâ and âcreative subjectâ within multiple fields of scholarship.
Ying Zhang, Ph.D. (2010, University of Michigan), is Associate Professor of Premodern Chinese History at Ohio State University. She has published on the political and cultural history of early modern China, including Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China (University of Washington Press, 2017).
Contents
Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368â1644)
Creative Environment, Creative Subjects
âYing Zhang
âAbstract
âKeywords
âCast of Characters
âIntroduction
âPart 1
â1âCreative Nature and the Calendar in Prison Poetry
â2âThe Self in Nature, Ritual, and Poetry
âPart 2
â3âThe Literati Art of Living in Confinement
â4âThe Art of Living: Nourishing Life, Transcending the Form
âAcknowledgments
âBibliography
Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368â1644)
Creative Environment, Creative Subjects
âYing Zhang
âAbstract
âKeywords
âCast of Characters
âIntroduction
âPart 1
â1âCreative Nature and the Calendar in Prison Poetry
â2âThe Self in Nature, Ritual, and Poetry
âPart 2
â3âThe Literati Art of Living in Confinement
â4âThe Art of Living: Nourishing Life, Transcending the Form
âAcknowledgments
âBibliography
All interested in premodern Chinese religion, poetry, art, and material culture, and anyone interested in prison culture and Confucian-educated Chinese.