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Tenth-Century Painting before Song Taizong’s Reign: A Macrohistorical View

Jonathan Hay

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Formats

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Tangchao minghua lu 4 5 It

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The Lady Guoguo on a Spring Outing Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Pasturing Horses Ban- quet Lofty Scholars Female Transcendents in the Lang Gar-

288 TENT H-CENT URY PAINT ING BEFORE SONG TAIZONG’S R EIGN den Nymph of the Luo River8 9 10 Oxen 11 Examining Books 12 13 Along the River at First Snow 14 15 Waiting for the Ferry 16

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Sparrows and Flowers of the Four Seasons Spring MountainsAutumn Mountains 20 The Feng and Shan 21 tuzhou 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

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29 30 31 32 Blue Magpie and Thorny Shrubs Xiaoyi Stealing the Lanting Scroll 33

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Screens 37 38 The Lofty Scholar Liang Boluan 39 Autumn Mountains at Dusk

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40Layered Mountains and Dense Forests41 Reading the Stele by Pitted Rocks 42 It has Court Ladies Pinning Flowers in Their Hair 43 44 The Emperor Minghuang’s Journey to Shu River Boats and a Riverside Mansion 45 46 47tuzhang 48 Villagers Celebrating the Dragonboat Festival 49 Travelers in Snow-Covered Mountains and 50 Villagers Celebrating the Dragon-

293 TENT H CENT URY CHINA AND BEYOND boat Festival Portrait of Song Taizu fu 51 52 53 54 Playing Chess in Front of the Double Screen and Examining Books Riverbank 55 Wintry Forests Examining Books56

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Wall Hangings bianxiang fan zheng Yizhou minghua lu zheng 57 that zheng fu fan

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Temple 62 bianxiang 63bianx- iang 64

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Genres Yizhou minghua lu Tuhua jianwen zhi and in the Xuanhe huapu Yizhou minghua lu

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Lidai minghua ji Tangchao minghua lu 67 Samantabhadra 68 69 70

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71 72 73 74 as Guide of Souls Guide of Souls 75 Ladies Pinning Flowers in Their Hair or Palace Ladies at a Banquet Yizhou minghua lu 76

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Two Horses, in the 77 Pasturing Horses 78 79 80 81 Sketches of Birds, Insects, and Turtles82

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Blue Magpie and Thorny Shrubs 83 84 85 86 87 88 89

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Bifa ji 90 Travelers in Snow-Covered Mountains 91 disentanglement Yizhou minghua lu 92

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93 94 95 Tuhua jianwen zhi 96

Disentanglement and Re-engagement

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relation Playing Chess in Front of a Double Screen 99 The Miraculous Image at Fanhe

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from 105 Along the River at First Snow Playing Chess in Front of a Double Screen

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The Miraculous Image at Fanhe 106 Bodhisattva as Guide of Souls 107 108 Book of Odes

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Odes Nymph of the Luo River possesses 110 Yizhou minghua lu guti renwu 111 Lofty Scholars The Lofty Scholar Liang Boluan Reading the Stele. 112

Conclusion

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Endnotes Song hua quanji Three Thousand Years of Journal of the American Oriental Society Meishushi yanjiu jikan

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Tangchao minghua lu Wenwu Zhongguo meishushi lunji Early Chinese Texts on Painting Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts on Chinese Painting Tuning the Lute Palace Ladies Tuning the Lute Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery–Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art fenben Lonely Lady Playing a Tunefenben Tangchao tihuashi zhu Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts Night-shining White Arts of the Sung and Yüan: Papers Prepared for an International Symposium Organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Conjunction with the Exhibition “Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National ,

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Burlington Magazine Tangchao tihuashi zhu Marriage of the Lord of the River: A Lost Landscape by Tung Yüan in Tuhua jianwen zhi Yizhou minghua lu Tangchao tihuashi zhu Tangchao minghua lu Yizhou minghua lu Yizhou minghua lu Guangchuan shubaZhongguo shuhua quanshu jinshi Tangchao tihuashi zhu Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts Huashi Tangchao minghua lu Tangchao tihuashi zhu Tangchao minghua lu Renkai shuhua jianding ji

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Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts fu The Picture of the Stone BridgeExperiences in Painting (T’u-hua chien- wên chih): An Eleventh Century History of Chinese Painting, Together with the Chinese Text in Facsimile . Fu Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts Evaluations of Sung Dynasty Painters of Renown—Liu Tao- ch’un’s “Sung-ch’ao ming-hua p’ing” Chinese Pictorial Art as Viewed by the Connoisseur: Notes on the Means and Methods of Traditional Chinese Connoisseurship of Pictorial Art, based upon a Study of the Art of Mounting Scrolls in China and fu Xuanhe huapu Xuanhe huapu zhou fu Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts The Eighteen Academicians Experiences in Painting Sui Tang huajia shiliao Experiences in PaintingChinese Pictorial Art Tangchao tihuashi zhu and Kaogu yu wenwu

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Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountain Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountain Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting Xuanhe huapu fu Wanhan shinu tuZanhua shinu tu Wenwu Zhongguo huihua quanji River Boats and a Riverside Mansion Traveling in Spring Youchun tu Wenwu Traveling in Spring River Boats and a Riverside Mansion The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting Tangdai bihua mushi yanjiu Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Textszhang to denote a yanzhang Artibus Asiae Travelers in Snow-Covered Mountains: Orientations Wenwu Landscape with Figures Riverbank Along the Riverbank: Chinese

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Painting from the C. C. Wang Family Collection Tangdai mushi bihua yanjiu Wenwu Riverbank tuanshan Shanzi yu Zhongguo wenhua Ladies Pinning Flowers to their Hair Yizhou minghua lu and Tuhua jianwen zhi The Night Revels of Tangchao minghua lufan Sutra of the Basic Actions Benxing jing Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: from the Silk Route Caves of the Thousand Buddhas bianxiang BianxiangHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies The Double Screen

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Les peintures murales des Cinq Dynasties du grand antiquaire C. T. Looécole Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts Cave of the Thousand Buddhas Samantabhadra Tuning the LutePure Land of BhaisyajaguruZhongguo huihua quanji Tuning the Lute Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts GandavyuhaAvatamsaka Sutra Latter Days of the Buddhist Law: Images of Chinese , 850–1850 Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts Les peintures murales des Cinq Dynasties International Symposium on Art Historical Studies Yizhou minghua lu Wudai minghua buyi Tuhua jianwenzhi Huashi

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Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts Zhongguo meishushi lunji Yizhou minghua lu Wudai minghua buyi Yizhou minghua lu Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting Sui Tang wenhua Lidai minghua ji and Tangchao minghua lu Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts Ching Hao’s “Pi-fa-chi”: A Note on the Art of the Brush Chinese : The Sui and T’ang Dynasties Ching Hao’s “Pi-fa-chi.” Travelers in Snow-Covered Mountains Yizhou minghua lu Yizhou minghua lu Experiences in Painting Tuhua jianwen zhi

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Tang Chao Ming Hua Lu Artibus Asiae The Double Screen Orientations Art and Architecture of China ang Chinese Walls in Time and Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective bianxiang Mingxian hualu Kunxue jiwen Tang zhi Sui Tang huajia shiliao Ma Hezhi and the Illustration of the Book of Odes Yizhou minghua lu Travelers in Autumn Mountains

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