1st Edition
The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China
By Roslyn Lee Hammers
Copyright 2021
312 Pages
31 Color & 58 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
312 Pages
31 Color & 58 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
312 Pages
31 Color & 58 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by successive Chinese emperors.
Furthermore, this book analyzes the genre’s imagery as well as the poems in their historical context and explains how the paintings contributed to distinctively cosmopolitan Qing imagery that also drew upon European visual... Read more
Introduction: The Ennobling Agrarian Work of the Qing Emperors 1. The Kangxi Emperor Reworks the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving 2. The Noble Labors of the Yongzheng Emperor 3. The Preoccupation of the Qianlong Emperor 4.The Sagacious Vocation of the Qianlong Emperor Epilogue. Working Toward Closure, the Jiaqing Emperor Reforms Imperial Labor Appendix A. Imperially composed poems for the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving Appendix B. Primary documents related to the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving and agrarian labor
Biography
Roslyn Lee Hammers is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong.
