Remembrance in clay and stone : early memorial and funerary art of Southwest China /
"This book examines the memorial and funerary art of Southwest China, present day Sichuan province, in early imperial times. It introduces the region's rich material culture from the Eastern Han dynasty (25 - 220 CE), which includes pictorial brick tiles, mingqi or spirit vessels, pottery...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Tang center series in early China.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Heaven's storehouse : geographical, social, and religious landscape of the Southwest
- Tomb art from the Southwest
- Cliff tomb burial and decorated stone sarcophagi
- Fun at funerals
- Intimacy and the afterlife
- Commemorating the dead for the living
- Afterword.