The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture
Edited by Jerome Silbergeld & Dora C. Y. Ching

Cloth | August 2013 | $75.00 / £52.00 | ISBN: 9780691158594
552 pp. | 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 | 140 line illus.

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The family model has been central to patterns of social organization and cultural articulation throughout Chinese history, influencing all facets of the content and style of Chinese art. With contributors drawn from the disciplines of art history, anthropology, psychiatry, history, and literature, this volume explores the Chinese concept of family and its impact upon artistic production. In essays ranging from the depiction of children to adult portraiture, through literary constructions of gender and the psychodynamics of cinema, these authors consider the historical foundations of the family--both real and ideal--in ancient China, discuss the perpetuation of this model in later Chinese history and modern times, and analyze how family paradigms informed and intersected with art and literature.

Jerome Silbergeld is the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History at Princeton University and director of Princeton's Tang Center for East Asian Art. Dora C. Y. Ching is associate director of the Tang Center for East Asian Art. They are the coeditors of ARTiculations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art, Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing, and (with Judith G. Smith and Alfreda Murck) Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong.

Other Princeton books authored or coauthored by Jerome Silbergeld:

• ARTiculations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art.
• Body in Question: Image and Illusion in Two Chinese Films by Director Jiang Wen.
• Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong (Two-Volume Set).

Other Princeton books authored or coauthored by Dora C. Y. Ching:

• ARTiculations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art.
• Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong (Two-Volume Set).

Series:

• Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

Subject Areas:

• Anthropology
• Art and Architecture
• Asian and Asian American Studies

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