Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Prologue: A Historical Overview of Six Dynasties Aesthetics 1
5. Part I: Images and Representations: Painting, Calligraphy, and Garden Construction
6. 1. Replication and Deception in Calligraphy of the Six Dynasties Period 31
7. 2. The Essay on Painting by Wang Wei (415–453) in Context 60
8. 3. Xie He’s “Six Laws” of Painting and Their Indian Parallels 81
9. 4. A Good Place Need Not Be a Nowhere: The Garden and Utopian Thought in the Six Dynasties 123
10. Part II: Words and Patterns: Poetry and Prose
11. 5. The Unmasking of Tao Qian and the Indeterminacy of Interpretation 169
12. 6. Crossing Boundaries: Transcendents and Aesthetics in the Six Dynasties 191
13. 7. Literary Games and Religious Practice at the End of the Six Dynasties: The Baguanzhai Poems by Xiao Gang and His Followers 222
14. Part III. The Parameters of Six Dynasties Aesthetics: Modes of Discourse
15. 8. Shishuo xinyu and the Emergence of Aesthetic Self- Consciousness in the Chinese Tradition 237
16. 9. Nature and Higher Ideals in Texts on Calligraphy, Music, and Painting 277
17. 10. The Conceptual Origins and Aesthetic Significance of “Shen” in Six Dynasties Texts on Literature and Painting 310
18. List of Contributors 343
19. Index 347