Craig Clunas is Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford, and the author of Superfluous Things (1991), Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China (Reaktion, 1996), Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (Reaktion, 1997), Art in China (1997) and Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming (Reaktion, 2004).
"Empire of Great Brightness" is an innovative and accessible history of a high point in Chinese culture, seen through the riches of its images and objects. Not a simple emperor-by-emperor history, it instead introduces the reader to themes that provide stimulating and original points of entry to the culture of China: to ideas of motion and rest; to the position occupied by writing and objects featuring writing; to ideas about pleasure, about violence and about ageing. It challenges notions of Ming China as a culture closed off from the rest of the world by emphasizing the vibrant interactions between China and the rest of Asia at this period. Craig Clunas uses a wide range of pictures and objects from Ming China to illustrate familiar areas such as painting and ceramics (including the blue-and-white porcelain of the period, arguably the world's first global brand'). He draws on items from public and private collections from around the world, which will be new even to specialists, including weapons, architecture, textiles and items of dress, printed books (from Ming pornography to the world's first illustrated reading book for children).
He also examines contemporary sources from government edicts to novels and phrasebooks of colloquial Chinese as well as the most recent scholarship to illuminate this most diverse period of Chinese art and culture. "Empire of Great Brightness" offers a varied and stimulating resource for all scholars of China's cultural history, for historians and art historians of related aspects of the early modern world, and for readers who are intrigued by China's past.
發表於2024-12-22
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英國牛津大學中國藝術史教授柯律格(Craig Clunas, 1954—)是一位勤奮的學者。他不斷更新的學術齣版目錄長達21頁。在英語學術圈,他正以數年一本的速度高産地齣版專著。最近一本著作於2013年下半年新鮮齣爐,使他的專著數量達到瞭兩位數。與之同時,中國學術界也在近幾年高校...
評分英國牛津大學中國藝術史教授柯律格(Craig Clunas, 1954—)是一位勤奮的學者。他不斷更新的學術齣版目錄長達21頁。在英語學術圈,他正以數年一本的速度高産地齣版專著。最近一本著作於2013年下半年新鮮齣爐,使他的專著數量達到瞭兩位數。與之同時,中國學術界也在近幾年高校...
評分Giving up “generalizations or overarching themes”, Clunas instead partakes of what Chakrabarty terms “affective history,” which follows the hermeneutic (not analytical) tradition to embrace the details and the diversity of lifeworld (afterword). This ...
評分1.柯氏作為西人治中國史,所論多有“大驚小怪”之感。一種可能是其本為講座稿,受眾多為西人,難免有所傾嚮。二是因為此書的理論架構多為現代西方的發明,明代的材料僅僅隻有印證以及被剪裁的功用,因此既不可能發展齣對於西方而言的獨特性,也削弱瞭明代在中國的獨特性。 2.與...
評分Giving up “generalizations or overarching themes”, Clunas instead partakes of what Chakrabarty terms “affective history,” which follows the hermeneutic (not analytical) tradition to embrace the details and the diversity of lifeworld (afterword). This ...
圖書標籤: 藝術史 柯律格 Craig_Clunas 海外中國研究 視覺文化 物質文化 明朝 曆史
單章讀起來倒頗有趣,闡釋性多過實證性,缺點是章節之間的關聯太弱
評分Ming People's perception of the world, fascinating......
評分頭尾幾章好,中間過目就忘的例子太多
評分如果說Clunas寫的書最精彩的地方,往往就是能從一個看似平常的名詞寫齣整整一部、一個朝代的視覺文化來。這次,在'Sitting and Roaming: Cultures of Direction and Movement'一節中,詮釋瞭‘遊’在明代視覺文化中的涵義。
評分確如Craig自己所說,像是一本鬆散的筆記。
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