Bulletin, Issues 70-71The Museum, 1998 - China |
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Page 187
... person's eyes , nose , mouth etc. in so - called " pattern books " , so that the painter - just like today's reconstructions in police matters – could compose a likeness of the departed.48 These " pattern books " are not described in ...
... person's eyes , nose , mouth etc. in so - called " pattern books " , so that the painter - just like today's reconstructions in police matters – could compose a likeness of the departed.48 These " pattern books " are not described in ...
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... person's home . To all appearances it served the same purpose as the tem- porary spirit - tablet ( hunbo ) as a repository for the departed person's spirit , and as such the portrait was associated with his soul . " Since early times ...
... person's home . To all appearances it served the same purpose as the tem- porary spirit - tablet ( hunbo ) as a repository for the departed person's spirit , and as such the portrait was associated with his soul . " Since early times ...
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... person in every single detail , it could not serve as a seat for the departed person's spirit . This may well explain why so many Chinese preferred to have their funeral portrait painted almost immediately after their death , as in this ...
... person in every single detail , it could not serve as a seat for the departed person's spirit . This may well explain why so many Chinese preferred to have their funeral portrait painted almost immediately after their death , as in this ...
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