Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture

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.

• Contributors vii Chronology of China ix Foreword and Acknowledgments, Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C. Y. Ching xi Introduction: The Chinese Family Model in the World of Art, Jerome Silbergeld and Michelle Deklyen 1 Part I The "Real" Family in China Families in China: Ties That Bind? Rubie S. Watson 13 Danger, Subjectivity, and the Chinese Family: Interpersonal Processes and the Changing Political and Moral Economies of the Self, Arthur Kleinman 37 The Ongoing Transformation of the Family: A Western Perspective, Vivian B. Shapiro 48 Orthodoxy, Resistance, and the Family in Chinese Art, Stevan Harrell 71 Part II Real and Ideal, the Family in Ancient Times Family and Gender in Burial Custom: The Case of Western Zhou Aristocracy, Jay Xu 93 Families in the Classical Era (323 BCE - 316 CE), Michael Nylan 143 Artisan Families in Ancient China, Anthony Barbieri-Low 199 Part III Presenting the Family in Art Mansions in Life and in Death, Klaas Ruitenbeek 229 Shadows in Life and Death: Family Portraiture, Dora C. Y. Ching 275 Picturing Children, Ann Barrott Wicks 301 Painting Boundaries of Sex Segregation in Qing China: Representing the Family in The Red Chamber Dream, Louise Edwards 339 The Ghosts of Patriarchy Past: Family Dynamics and Psycho-Politics in Recent Chinese-Language Cinema, Jerome Silbergeld 373 A Family Tradition That Portrays Families in Paintings without Painting Any Family Pictures: The Nianhua of Mianzhu, Sichuan, Stevan Harrell 401 Part IV The Family as Site and Symbol of Artistic Production Art and Family Identity during the Yuan Dynasty: The Zhao Family of Wuxing, Ankeney Weitz 423 The Family Style: Art as Lineage in the Ming and Qing, Craig Clunas 459 The Heirloom Painting in Early Modern Japan, Yukio Lippit 475 Index-Glossary 515 Image Credits 550

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