Arts of the Sung and Yüan : Papers Prepared for an International Symposium Organized by the Metropolitain Museum of Art in Conjunction with the Exhibition "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei"

Contributors to the SymposiumForewordChronologyI. Ritual, Functional, and Decorative Arts1. A New Study of Ancient Chinese Calligraphy: Shang Dynasty Bronze Inscriptions as Standard Script and Oracle Bone Inscriptions as Simplified ScriptChang Kuang–yüan2. Changes in the Representation of Life and the Afterlife as Illustrated by the Contents of Tombs of the T'ang and Sung PeriodJessica Rawson3. Commodities, Collectables, and Trade Goods: Some Modes of Categorizing Material Culture in Sung–Yüan TextsCraig ClunasII. New Directions in Northern Sung Culture4. The Revival of Calligraphy in the Early Norhtern SungHo Chuan–hsing5. The Relationship Between Intimate Scenery and Shoal–and–Waterfowl Paintings in the Sung DynastyLin Po–ting6. A Discussion of Ting Ware with Unglazed Rims and Related Twelfth–Century Official PorcelainTs'ai Mei–fenIII. Politics, Society, and Culture7. Humanity and "Universals" in Sung Dynasty PaintingMartin J. Powers8. Art and Identity in the Northern Sung Dynasty: Evidence from GardensRobert E. Harrist, Jr.9. In the Realm of Naturalness: Problems of Self–Imaging by the Northern Sung LiteratiPeter C. SturmanIV. Religion and Cross–Cultural Influences10. Deer for the Palace: A Reconsideration of the Deer in an Autumn Forest PaintingsHsingyuan Tsao11. The Eight Immortals: The Transformation of T'ang and Sung Taoist Eccentrics During the Yüan DynastyAnning Jing12. Buddhist Monuments of Yunnan: Eclectic Art of a Frontier Kingdom Angela F. HowardV. Interaction of Literati and Court Ideals13. Art and Imperial Images at the Late Southern Sung CourtHui–shu Lee14. From Spring Fragrance, Clearing After Rain to Listening to the Wind in the Pines: Some Proposals for the Courtly Context of Paintings by Ma Lin in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, TaipeiWang Tao–t'ing15. The Painting of Flowers and Birds in Sung–Yüan Landscape PaintingOgawa Hiromitsu18. Patriarchs in Another Age—In Search of Style and Meaning in Two Sung–Yüan Paintings* ... Edited By Maxwell K. Hearn And Judith K. Smith. Proceedings Of The International Symposium Held At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, March 19-may 19, 1996. Accompanied By Supplement ([23] Leaves). Includes Bibliographical References.