Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644

by Craig Clunas

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Empire of Great Brightness is an innovative and accessible history of a high point in Chinese culture, seen through the riches of its images and objects. Not a simple emperor-by-emperor history, it instead introduces the reader to themes that provide stimulating and original points of entry to the culture of China: to ideas of motion and rest, to the position occupied by writing and objects featuring writing; to ideas about pleasure, about violence...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0824831497

ISBN13:9780824831493

Release Date:January 2007

Publisher:University of Hawaii Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:2.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 7.8" x 10.1"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography History

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