The Economy of Images:
Visual Culture in China 1400-1700
Prof Craig Clunas,
Sussex University
This is a list of recommended reading for a specific course, giving some general bibliography, and additional background reading. You can also find the course outline in the GLAADH website. [link to: Course Outline: Econ imges course.doc]
This bibliography includes: [make this list hyperlinks to appropriate bookmarks down the page]
· General Reference Books on China
· General Books on Chinese History
· Some Books Specifically About the Ming period (1368-1644)
· Books on Chinese Literature
· Books on Chinese Painting
· Artistic Theory
· Books on Ming arts other than painting
· Pronunciation hints for Chinese names written in the pinyin system:
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General Reference
Books on China
C. Blunden and M. Elvin, Cultural Atlas of China, 1983
W.T. De Bary, W. Chan and B. Watson eds, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol II, 1960
M. Dillon, Dictionary
of Chinese History, 1979
A. Herrmann, An
Historical Atlas of China, 1966
The Times Atlas of World History
General Books on
Chinese History
K.C. Chang ed., Food in Chinese Culture (New Haven and London, 1977) [Has excellent chapter on Ming food]
M. Ch'ien, Traditional
Government in Imperial China, 1982
Mark Elvin, The
Pattern of the Chinese Past, 1973
J.K. Fairbank, E.O. Reischauer and E.M. Craig, China: Tradition and Transformation, 1979
J. Gernet, History of
Chinese Civilisation, 1982
R. Huang, China: A
Macro-History, 1988
C.O. Hucker, China's
Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History, 1975
David Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan and Evelyn S, Rawski eds, Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, 1985
K.S. Latourette, The Chinese; their history and culture, 1962
J.T. Meskill et al. Introduction
to Chinese Civilisation, 1973
D. Nivison and A.F. Wright eds, Confucianism in Action, 1959
B. Smith and W. Weng, China: A History in Art, 1973
Some Books
Specifically About the Ming period (1368-1644)
Chu-tsing Li and James C.Y. Watt eds, The Chinese Scholar's Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period (New York, 1978)
C. Chang & C.H. Chang Crisis and Transformation in 17th-century China (Ann Arbor, 1992)
Urban Life in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties (Singapore, 1994)
C.O. Hucker, The
Censorial System of Ming China, 1966
C.O. Hucker, Chinese
government in Ming times: seven studies, 1969
R. Huang, 1587, A Year
of No Significance: the Ming Dynasty in Decline, 1981
F. W. Mote and D. Twitchett eds, The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty 1368-1644, Part 1, 1988, Part 2, 1998 [The first volume is straight year by year history, the second is essys on aspects of Ming society, e.g. religion but very poor coverage of the arts]
John Dardess, A Ming
Society: T’ai-ho County, Kiangsi, fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, 1996
Books on Chinese
Literature
David Tod Roy trans., The Plum in the Golden Vase, (Chicago, 1993) [This is a brilliant translation of the greatest of Ming novels, and gives a lot of insight into daily life in a wealthy merchant household]
H.C. Chang, Chinese
Literature: Popular Fiction and Drama, 1973
W. Dolby, History of
Chinese Drama, 1976
W. Dolby, Eight
Chinese Plays from the 13th Century to the Present, 1978
C. Egerton trans, The
Golden Lotus, 1972
C. Hsia, The Classic
Chinese Novel, a Critical Introduction, 1968
F.W. Mote, The Poet
Kao Ch'i, 1336-1374, 1962
W. R. Nienhauser ed., The
Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, 1986
G. Whincup, The Heart
of Chinese Poetry: an Anthology of Translations, 1987
The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Books on Chinese
Painting
Three Thousand Years
of Chinese Painting (New Haven, 1998)
James Cahill, The Painter’s Practice (New York, 1994)
Wu Hung, The Double Screen (London, 1996)
Wen Fong, Possessing the Past (New York, 1996) [Catalogue of a major exhibition of material from the National Palace Museum Taipei, includes many of the works we will be looking at]
Kao Mayching, Paintings of the Ming Dynasty from the Palace Museum (Hong Kong, 1988)
Eight Dynasties of
Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas
City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, 1980)
Susan Bush and Christian Murck eds. Theories of the Arts in China (Princeton, 1983)
Jessica Rawson ed., The
British Museum Book of Chinese Art (London, 1992)
Rose Kerr ed., Chinese
Art and Design (London, 1991)
Anne Farrer, 'The
Brush Dances and the Ink Sings': Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the
British Museum (London, 1990)
R.H. Van Gulik, Chinese
Pictorial art as Viewed by the Connoisseur (New York, 1981)
Richard Barnhart, Peach Blossom Spring: Gardens and Flowers in Chinese Art (New York, 1983)
J. B. Harley and D. Woodward eds, The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 2: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian societies (Chicago, 1993)
Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth (Cambridge, 1959) [sections on cartography]
Kiyohiko Munakata, Sacred Mountains in Chinese Art (Urbana, 1991)
Artistic Theory
Susan Bush and Hsio-yen Shih, Early Chinese Texts on Painting (Cambridge, MA, 1985)
A. Murck and Wen Fong eds., Words and Images: Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting (Princeton, 1991)
Lin Yu-tang, The
Chinese Theory of Art, 1967
Osvald Siren, The
Chinese on the Art of Painting: translations and comments (New York, 1963)
Christian F. Murck ed., Artists
and Traditions: Uses of the Past in Chinese Culture (Princeton, 1976)
Books on Ming arts
other than painting
Craig Clunas, 'Books and Things; Ming Literary Culture and Material Culture', in Frances Wood ed., Chinese Studies, British Library Occasional papers 10 (London, 1988), pp.136-43.
Shelagh Vainker, Chinese
Pottery and Porcelain: from prehistory to the present day (London, 1991)
Michael Butler, Margaret Medley and Stephen Little, Seventeenth-century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection (Alexandria, 1990)
Stephen Little, Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period: 1620-1683 (New York, 1983)
Susanne Valenstein, A
handbook of Chinese Ceramics (New York, 1989)
Derek Clifford, Chinese
Carved Lacquer (London, 1992)
Regina Krahl & Brian Morgan, From Image to Conformity: Chinese lacquer from the 13th to the 16th century (London, 1989)
Hu Shih-chang, 2,000 Years of Chinese Lacquer (Hong Kong, 1993)
National Palace Museum, Exhibition of Tapestry (Taipei, 1989)
Rose Kerr, Later
Chinese Bronzes (London, 1990)
V.M Garrett ed.,
Heaven’s Embroidered Cloths: one thousand years of Chinese textiles (Hong
Kong, 1995)
Pronunciation hints for
Chinese names written in the pinyin system:
X, pronounce like an `s'
Q, pronounce like `ch'
Zh, pronounce like `j' as in
`jam'
SO:- Xiang, say `See-ang'; Qin,
say `chin'; Zhou, say `joe'.