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Brushes with power: modern politics and the Chinese art of calligraphy

Richard Curt Kraus
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE (page ix)
  • PART I - THE INSTITUTION OF CALLIGRAPHY IN IMPERIAL CHINA (page 1)
    • 1. Chinese Calligraphy as a System of Power (page 3)
    • 2. Demystifying Chinese Characters (page 15)
    • 3. The Legend of the Calligraphy Sage, Wang Xizhi (page 26)
    • 4. The Brush as an Instrument of Rule (page 36)
    • 5. Art Criticism as Political Commentary (page 45)
  • PART II - CALLIGRAPHY AND REVOLUTION (page 53)
    • 6. The Cultural Dilemma of the Revolutionary Elite (page 55)
    • 7. The Gentlemen Scholars of the Central and South Lakes (page 65)
    • 8. The Failed Assault on Chinese Characters (page 75)
    • 9. Leninist Calligraphy for Mass Politics (page 83)
    • 10. Cultural Revolution Calligraphy: Big Characters and Leftist Lines (page 96)
    • ll. Evil Characters, Poison Pens (page 109)
    • 12. The Unsuccessful Penmanship of Chairman Hua Guofeng (page 123)
  • PART III - POSTREVOLUTIONARY CALLIGRAPHY (page 139)
    • 13. Calligraphy's New Conventions (page 141)
    • 14. A Personal Art in a Changing Society (page 151)
    • 15. The Orchid Pavilion's Modern Legacy (page 159)
  • NOTES (page 173)
  • CREDITS FOR ILLUSTRATIONS (page 199)
  • INDEX (page 203)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 98.1 (Feb. 1993): 219-220 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2166503
JP 55.1 (Feb. 1993): 288-290 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2132262
JAS 51.4 (Nov. 1992): 896-898 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2059064
AJCA 31 (Jan. 1994): 142-143 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2949914
CQ 132 (Dec. 1992): 1161-1170 http://www.jstor.org/stable/654198
PA 66.1 (Spring. 1993): 105-108 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2760028
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Published: c1991
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520910898 (ebook)
  • 9780520072855 (hardcover)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • Asian: China and Inner Asia
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