Water moon reflections : essays in honor of Patricia Berger

This volume's research essays span two millennia and nearly the full territorial extent of East and Inner Asia. They highlight Patricia Berger's vast range of expertise as well as general themes that run through her work. Topics include art's relationship to political power and collective memory, the cultural and material fluency of Qing objects and texts, multiplicity and self-fashioning through portraiture and dance, and conformity and authority in relation to selfhood and modern and contemporary art. Cover Notes to This Edition Title Page Copyright Page Contents Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Economics of Myth: Historicizing Discourses on Metal, Soil, and Ritual under Han Wudi 2. The Portrait of Chinggis Khaan: Revisiting the Ancestral Connections 3. A Life in Pictures: Landscape Biography in a Seventeenth-Century Parting Painting 4. Ineffable Gloss: Qing Ornament on Porcelain 5. The Bejeweled Ascetic: Envisioning Tantric Embodiment in an Album from the Qing Court 6. Karmic Affinities: Rethinking Relations among Tibetan Lamas and the Qing Emperor 7. Family and Nation: Qing and Meiji Imperial Family Portraits 8. Ruth St. Denis as Bodhisattva: An Art Historical Perspective on the Appropriation of Buddhist Imagery 9. Katsura Yuki and the Allegorical Impulse 10. Chun Kyung-ja and the Scandal of Beautiful Woman "This volume's research essays span two millennia and nearly the full territorial extent of East and Inner Asia. Contributed by Patricia Berger's advisees, they highlight her vast range of expertise as well as general themes that run through her work. Topics include art's relationship to political power and collective memory, the cultural and material fluency of Qing objects and texts, multiplicity and self-fashioning through portraiture and dance, and conformity and authority in relation to selfhood in modern and contemporary art"-- Provided by publisher. The Economics of Myth: Historicizing Discourses on Metal, Soil, and Ritual under Han Wudi / Filippo Marsili -- The Bejeweled Ascetic: Envisioning Tantric Embodiment in an Album from the Qing Court / Rae Erin Dachille -- Chun Kyung-ja and the Scandal of Beautiful Woman / Sunglim Kim