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Tea, Fragrance, and Music
Ephemeral Arts and the Formation of Scholar-Artist Communities in Northern Song China
Series: - Ancient Languages and Civilizations, Volume: 9
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This book explores one of the central questions among many disciplines: how communities are formed. It investigates this question through the perspectives of scholar-artist communities in Northern Song China. You will learn how some of the then popular ephemeral artistic practices, such as whisking tea, burning aromatic substances, and playing and listening to qin music, were performed. Through these practices related sensory experiences were generated. The formation process of communities invovled many other aspects such as the interplay among people, materials, ephemeral arts, and sensory experiences, which is hard to identify in pure textual sources.
Kin Sum (Sammy) LI, PhD (Princeton 2015), is Associate Professor at the Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University. He has published articles on the history of mass production in the ancient world and he attempts to study industrial art with the assistance of modern technology. Recently he develops an interest in the history of tea cultures.
Acknowledgements
List of maps, figures, and tables
Abbreviations
Chronology, dating, protagonists, and conventions
Introduction
â1âCultures of tea, fragrance, and qin music today
â2âKey terms, main arguments, and approaches
â3âCommunity formation and scholar-artists
â4âCommunity formation involving people, materials, experiences, and ephemeral practices
1 Cultural construct
â1âRelationship between tea, fragrance, and music
â2âTea
â3âFragrances and aromatic substances
â4âMusic from the qin and the prosody
2 Economic construct
â1âTea and utensils
â2âAromatic substances
â3âQin
â4âTransportation
3 Artistic construct
â1âLiterati gatherings as constructed in paintings
â2âForming their own visual language
â3âTea in literary works
â4âAromatic substances in literary works
â5âQin in literary works
Conclusion
â1âSummary
â2âThe formation of scholar-artist communities
â3âMethodological reflections on the history of art
â4âImpact on contemporary issues
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Tea utensils
Appendix 2: Images of water at different temperatures
Appendix 3: Process of one of the simulation experiments of tea-tipping
Appendix 4: Length of time, whisking frequency, and angle of inclination of whisking
Glossary
Index
List of maps, figures, and tables
Abbreviations
Chronology, dating, protagonists, and conventions
Introduction
â1âCultures of tea, fragrance, and qin music today
â2âKey terms, main arguments, and approaches
â3âCommunity formation and scholar-artists
â4âCommunity formation involving people, materials, experiences, and ephemeral practices
1 Cultural construct
â1âRelationship between tea, fragrance, and music
â2âTea
â3âFragrances and aromatic substances
â4âMusic from the qin and the prosody
2 Economic construct
â1âTea and utensils
â2âAromatic substances
â3âQin
â4âTransportation
3 Artistic construct
â1âLiterati gatherings as constructed in paintings
â2âForming their own visual language
â3âTea in literary works
â4âAromatic substances in literary works
â5âQin in literary works
Conclusion
â1âSummary
â2âThe formation of scholar-artist communities
â3âMethodological reflections on the history of art
â4âImpact on contemporary issues
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Tea utensils
Appendix 2: Images of water at different temperatures
Appendix 3: Process of one of the simulation experiments of tea-tipping
Appendix 4: Length of time, whisking frequency, and angle of inclination of whisking
Glossary
Index
Lovers of tea, fragrance, qin music, and readers intersted in Song history. Libraries, museums, art collectors and dealers. General art historians and social scientists.