Bulletin, Issues 70-71The Museum, 1998 - China |
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Page 47
... human and animal renderings - that one may be substituted in place of the other in signifying metamorphic power . Both appear to depend on each other as dimensions of the symbolic program underlying Shang imagery . Human or semihuman ...
... human and animal renderings - that one may be substituted in place of the other in signifying metamorphic power . Both appear to depend on each other as dimensions of the symbolic program underlying Shang imagery . Human or semihuman ...
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four human faces cast on four external vessel walls are exceptionally prominent , standardized metropolitan mask features are maintained in the abbreviated body part of limbs ending in four claws and in the abstract wavy horns of the ...
four human faces cast on four external vessel walls are exceptionally prominent , standardized metropolitan mask features are maintained in the abbreviated body part of limbs ending in four claws and in the abstract wavy horns of the ...
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... human and animal forms are represented interdependently and symbiotically , in the sense of expressing a coherent symbol . On the Anhui zun a complete human body with head is represented underneath a tiger's open mouth and bifurcated ...
... human and animal forms are represented interdependently and symbiotically , in the sense of expressing a coherent symbol . On the Anhui zun a complete human body with head is represented underneath a tiger's open mouth and bifurcated ...
Contents
The Metamorphic Image | 5 |
Cannibalism in the Dynastic Histories | 73 |
Chinese Ancestral Portraits Some Late Ming | 173 |
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abbreviated body abstract ancestral portraits animal image animal mask antlers Anyang argali Beijing bone inscriptions Bronze Vessels buffalo burial cannibalism chariot China chutu cicada claws Crack-making cut flesh deer Di Xin dynasty eaten emperor father fell ill Fu Hao funeral graph Guang Hebei Henan HHSJJ horns HSBZ human Huo Guang identified imperial jade jade-suit Kaogu keci Late Shang bronze Liang Liangzhu Longshan Lushi Chunqiu Middle Shang Ming Ming dynasty Muntjak Museum op.cit oracle bone painted qian Qing qingtongqi reign religious representation rite Ritual Bronzes Ritual Vessels sacrifice semihuman severe famine Shaanxi shan Shandong Shang imagery Shang king Shang ritual Shanhaijing Sika Sika deer stag symbol Taibei Tangshu taotie thigh ticou tiger tiger mask tomb Wang Wenwu Press wild Xiaotun Xibeigang yanjiu Yinxu Yinxu chutu Yuan Zhang Zhengzhou Zhongguo