《Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture》简介：

Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve contributors to this volume adopt a middle position. They agree that Chinese images are conditioned by indigenous traditions and dynamics of social interaction, but they seek to explain a general Chinese body and face by charting multiple, specific bodies and faces. All of the chapters are historical case studies and investigate particular images, such as Han dynasty tomb figurines; Buddhist texts and illustrations; pictures of deprivation, illness, deformity, and ghosts; clothing; formal portraiture; and modern photographs and films. From the diversity of art forms and historical periods studied, there emerges a more complex picture of ways that the visual culture of the body and face in China has served to depict the living, memorialize the dead, and present the unrepresentable in art.

《Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture》目录：

Figures vii
Contributors xv
Introduction 1
Wu Hung and Katherine R. Tsiang

Part I The Religious Body
1 On Tomb Figurines: The Beginning of a Visual Tradition 13
Wu Hung
2 Embodiments of Buddhist Texts in Early Medieval Chinese Visual Culture 49
Katherine R. Tsiang
3 Of the True Body: The Famen Monastery Relics and Corporeal Transformation in Tang Imperial Culture 79
Eugene Y. Wang

Part II Body Imagery and Self-representation
4 Fleshly Desires and Bodily Deprivations: The Somatic Dimensions of Xu Wei's Flower Painting 121
Kathleen M. Ryor
5 Illness, Disability, and Deformity in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art 147
Qianshen Bai
6. Clothes Make the Man: Dress, Modernity, and Masculinity in China, ca. 1912-1937 171
Robert E. Harrist, Jr.
Part III Body-Face Interactions in Portraiture
7 The Face in Life and Death: Mimesis and Chinese Ancestor Portraits 197
Jan Stuart
8 The Life and Death of the Image: Ghosts and Female Portraits in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literature 229
Judith T. Zeitlin
9 Essentially Chinese: The Chinese Portrait Subject in Nineteenth-Century Photography 257
Roberta Wue
Part IV Performing the Body and Face
10 The Piping of Man 283
Susan E. Nelson
11 The Kangxi Emperor's Brush-Traces: Calligraphy, Writing, and the Art of Imperial Authority
Jonathan Hay
12 Phantom Theater, Disfigurement, and History in Song at Midnight
Zhang Zhen
Reference Matter
Notes
Index
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