chapter 9. How the Giraffe Became a Qilin: Intercultural Signification in Ming Dynasty Arts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Chronology of Chinese Dynasties xi
6. Trading Places: An Introduction to Zoomorphism and Anthropomorphism in Chinese Art 1
7. chapter 1. The Taotie Motif on Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes 21
8. chapter 2. Labeling the Creatures: Some Problems in Han and Six Dynasties Iconography 67
9. chapter 3. Representing the Twelve Calendrical Animals as Beastly, Human, and Hybrid Beings in Medieval China 95
10. chapter 4. The Didactic Use of Animal Images in Southern Song Buddhism: The Case of Mount Baoding in Dazu, Sichuan 137
11. chapter 5. Evil Dragon, Golden Rodent, Sleek Hound: The Evolution of Soushan Tu Paintings in the Northern Song Period 171
12. chapter 6. Animals in Chinese Rebus Paintings 215
13. chapter 7. The Pictorial Form of a Zoomorphic Ecology: Dragons and Their Painters in Song and Southern Song China 253
14. chapter 8. The Political Animal: Metaphoric Rebellion in Zhao Yong’s Painting of Heavenly Horses 289
15. chapter 9. How the Giraffe Became a Qilin: Intercultural Signification in Ming Dynasty Arts 341
16. chapter 10. Weird Science: European Origins of the Fantastic Creatures in the Qing Court Painting, the Manual of Sea Oddities 379
17. chapter 11. Huang Yong Ping and the Power of Zoomorphic Ambiguity 401
18. Glossary 433
19. Contributors 443
20. Index 447