CD-Project ‘Colorful Lanterns at Shangyuan’
Selected Bibliography

Historical Surveys of the Ming Dynasty

Brook, Timothy. 1998. The Confusions of Pleasure. Commerce and Culture in Ming China. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Gernet, Jacques. 1999. A History of Chinese Civilization. Cambridge University Press: 723 -734.
Mote, Frederick W. and Denis Twitchett (eds.). 1988. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Twitchett, Denis and Frederick W. Mote (eds.). 1998. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 8, The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Animals

Cutter, Robert Joe. 1989. The Brush and the Spur. Chinese Culture and the Cockfight. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

Harrist, Robert E. Jr.. 1997. Power and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art. New York: China Institute Gallery.
National Palace Museum Bulletin, Vol. 36, No. 2, July 2002. (Issue on horses).

Art

Barnhart, Richard M. 1997. “The Five Dynasties (907-960) and the Song Period (960-1279)”. In Barnhart et al., Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. New Haven, London: Yale University Press: 87-137.
Cahill, James. 1994. The Painter’s Practice. How Artists Lived and Worked In Traditional China. New York: Columbia University Press.
Chan, Guoqiang (comp.). 1993. Ming si huajia [Four Ming Painters]. Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe.
Cooke Johnson, Linda. 1996. “The Place of Qingming Shanghe tu in the Historical Geography of Song Dynasty Dongjing”, Journal of Song Yuan Studies:, 145-182.
van Gulik, Robert. 1993. Chinese Pictorial Art as Viewed by the Conoisseur. Notes on the Means and Methods of Traditional Chinese Conoisseurship or Pictorial Art, Based Upon a Study of the Art or Mounting Scrolls in China and Japan. Taipei: Southern Material Publishing Inc. (Original edition published by Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. Rome 1958).
Hansen, Valerie. 1996. “The Mystery of the Qing Ming Scroll and Its Subject: The Case Against Kaifeng”, Journal of Song Yuan Studies: 182-200.
Hansen, Valerie. 1996. The Beijing Qing Ming Scroll and its Significance for the Study of Chinese History. Albany, N.Y.: Journal of Song Yuan Studies.
Hay, John. 1972. “Along the River During Winter’s First Snow. A Tenth Century Handscroll and Early Chinese Narrative”, Burlington Magazine 114 (830) (May 1972): 292-303.
Kerr, Rose (ed.). 1991. Chinese Art and Design. London: Victoria and Albert Museum.
Kohara, Hironobu. 1991. “Narrative Illustration in the Handscroll Format”. In Words and Images: Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting, ed. Alfreda Murck and Wen C. Fong. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 247-266.
Laing, Ellen Johnston. 2000. “Suzhou Pian and other Dubious Paintings in the Received Oevre of Qiu Ying”. In: Artibus Asiae v. 59, no.3/4: 265-295.
Laing, Ellen Johnston. 1997. “Qiu Ying’s Delicate Style“. In: Ars Orientalis XXVII, vol. 29: 39-66.
Laing, Ellen Johnston.1997. “Qiu Ying’s Late Landscape Paintings“. In: Oriental Art, vol. 43: 28-36.
Liaoning bowuguan (ed.). 1983. Liaoning bowuguan canghua . Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe.
Li Yumin (ed.), Through the Prism of the Past: Antiquarian Trends in Chinese Art of the 16th to 18th Century. Taibei: National Palace Museum 2003.
Mair, Victor . 1988. Painting and Performance. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
Mitchell, W. J. 1994. Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Presentation. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Na, Zhiliang. 19932. Qingming shanghe tu. Taibei: Taibei Gugong bowuyuan. [Reed College].
Whitfield, Roderick. 1965. Chang Tse-tuan’s Ch’ing-Ming Shang-he t’u. Princeton University. (Ph.D. diss.)

Buddhism in Pre-modern China

Brook, Timothy. 1993. Praying for Power. Buddhism and the formation of gentry society in Late-Ming China. Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press.
Ch’en, Kenneth. 1964. Buddhism in China. A Historical Survey. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ding, Guanpeng. 2000. The Buddha Scroll. Introduced by Thomas Cleary. Boston, London: Shambala.
Lai, Whalen W. 2004. “The Origins of Ming Buddhist Schism”. In: Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China, ed. Kwang-Ching Liu and Richard Shek. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press: 109-135.
Murray, Julia K. 1995. “Buddhism and Early Narrative Illustration in China”. In: Archives of Asian Art XLVIII: 17-30.
Thinley, Karma. 1980. The History of the Sixteen Karmapas of Tibet. Boulder, Co.: Prajna Press.
Yü, Chün-fang. 1981. The Renewal of Buddhism in China. Chu-hung and the Late Ming Synthesis. New York Columbia University Press.

Gardens

Stein, Rolf A. 1990. The World in Miniature. Container Gardens and Dwellings in Far Eastern Religious Thought. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Handlin-Smith, Joanna. 1992. “Gardens in Ch’i Piao-chia’s Social World: Wealth and Values in Late-Ming Jiangnan”. In: JAS 51:2: 55-81.
Hardie, Alison. 1991. “Ji Cheng’s Yuan Ye (The Craft of Gardens) in its Social Setting“. In: The Authentic Garden. A Symposium on Gardens, ed. Leslie Tjon Sit Fat and Erik de Jong. Leiden: Clusius Foundation: 207-124.
Keswick, Maggie. 19978. The Chinese Garden: History, Art, and Architecture. New York: Rizzoli.

Material Culture

Clunas, Craig. 1991. Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Clunas, Craig. 1988. Chinese Furniture. London: Bamboo Publishing Ltd.
Handler, Sarah. 2001. Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hay, John. 1985. Kernels of Energy, Bones of Earth.The Rock in Chinese Art. New York: China House Gallery. China Institute in America.
Kieschnick, John. 2003. The Influence of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ryor, Kathleen. 2002. “Nature Contained: Penjing and Flower Arrangements as Surrogate Gardens in Ming China“. In: Orientations March 2002: 68-75.
Shen, Congwen . 1981. Zhongguo gudai fushi yanjiu. [A Study of Chinese Traditional Clothing]. Hong Kong: Shangwu yinshuguan.
Stein, Rolf A. 1990. The World in Miniature. Container Gardens and Dwellings in Far Eastern Religious Thought. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Jan Stuart, “Ming dynasty gardens reconstructed in words and images“, Journal of Garden History, no. 10, 3/1990, 162-172.
Tao, Siyan. 2003. Zhongguo xiangwu [Chinese auspicious objects]. Taibei: Dongda tushu gufen youxian gongsi.
Wu, Shan (ed.). 1995. Zhongguo gongyi meishu cidian [Dictionary of Chinese Arts and Crafts]. Taibei: Hsiung Shih Art Books Co. Ltd.
Wu, Shan (ed.). 1988. Zhongguo gongyi meishu cidian [Dictionary of Chinese Arts and Crafts]. Nanjing: Jiangsu meishu chubanshe.
Zeitlin, Judith T. 1999. “The Secret Life of Rocks: Objects and Collectors in the Ming and Qing Imagination“. Orientations, May 1999: 40-47.
Zhuang, Shen . 1992. Shanzi yu Zhongguo wenhua [The Fan in Chinese Culture]. Dongda tushu gongsi. Taibei.

Ming Capitals

Asim, Ina. ‘Coiling Dragon, Crouching Tiger’. Urban Life in Late Ming Nanjing. (Forthcoming)
Farmer, Edward L. 1976. Early Ming Government: The Evolution of Dual Capitals. Cambridge, Mass.: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University Press.
Lantern Festival
Aijmer, Göran. 2003. New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.
Symbols in Chinese Art
Eberhard, Wolfram. 1986. A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: hidden symbols in Chinese life and thought. London, New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Jing, Pei Fang. 2004. Symbols and Rebuses in Chinese Art. Figures, Bugs, Beasts, and Flowers. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press.
Williams, C.A.S.1974. Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives. An alphabetical compendium of antique legends and beliefs, as reflected in the manners and customs of the Chinese. Rutland, Vt.: C.E. Tuttle Co.

Women in Pre-modern China

Cass, Victoria. 1999. Dangerous Women. Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Ko, Dorothy, Jahyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Pigott (eds.). 2003. Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Ko, Dorothy. 1994. Teachers of the Inner Chambers. Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Mann, Susan and Yu-Yin Cheng (eds.). 2001. Under Confucian Eyes. Writing on Gender in Chinese History. Berkeley: University of California Press.