Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China:
Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin
Robert E. Harrist Jr.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	List of Illustrations
	Introduction: The Poetics of Private Life	3
Ch. 1	The Face behind the Fan: Li Gonglin and Northern Song Painting	11
Ch. 2	A Walk through the Longmian Mountains	32
Ch. 3	The Transformed Landscape: Place and Persona in Northern Song Gardens	46
Ch. 4	Evoking the Past: Memories of Wang Wei and Lu Hong	67
Ch. 5	Mountain Villa and the Languages of Landscape in Eleventh-Century China	89
Ch. 6	Conclusion: Painting and Private Life	105
Appendix	The Extant Copies of Mountain Villa	113
	Notes	119
	Bibliography	137
	Glossary of Chinese Characters	149
	Index	155
	Illustrations	165

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