Leung Yuen-fun Rachel. / Thesis submitted in: May 2004. / One leaflet mounted. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter One: --- Historical Background / The discovery of the kiln sites --- p.1 / The naming of Changsha ware --- p.3 / The beginning of production --- p.5 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- Development of Changsha ware / Duration of operation --- p.10 / Stages of development --- p.11 / Reasons for decline --- p.15 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Glaze and Kiln Characteristics of Changsha ware / Body --- p.18 / Shaping method --- p.19 / Glazes --- p.19 / Kiln --- p.21 / Chapter Chapter Four: --- Classification of Changsha ware in the Art Museum collection / Introduction --- p.24 / Daily household wares --- p.25 / Cultural and scholar's articles --- p.44 / Toys --- p.47 / Potter's tool --- p.51 / Chapter Chapter Five: --- Decoration of Changsha ware in the Art Museum collection / Introduction --- p.53 / Decorative technique --- p.54 / Decorative motif --- p.59 / Chapter Chapter Six: --- Changsha ware as reflections of daily life / Custom and religion --- p.78 / Games --- p.94 / Childhood education --- p.98 / Cross cultural Communication --- p.100 / Chapter Chapter Seven: --- Conclusion --- p.102

As the most important city in the Far East after the Opium War in terms of physical capital and western civilization importation, Shanghai, with an unprecedented openness, created a hybrid environment of domestic and foreign immigrants. Furthermore, its location advantage at the meeting point of the South-North major transportation routes and within the most economically developed regions of Jiangsu and Zhejiang produced an unparalleled social tolerance and cultural context, thus providing new room for revival and innovation of then declining figure paintings. / As the most popular Shanghai-based artist in the 20th century, Ren Bonian's life spanned Late Qing's most critical 50 years that were full of external challenges. Under then Shanghai's complex historical and cultural background, his figure paintings, especially women story paintings, demonstrated the significance of multi-referential. His women paintings were so welcomed also have other reasons: such as the influences from other Shanghai artists of women paintings; his reference to and evolution of classical image in his paintings; his absorption and creation of folk image; and his understanding and interpretation of Japanese image. Ren Bonian's rewriting and re-reading of women's images in his diversified women paintings showed the abundance of women-related topics in late Qing. / This thesis is to show that a unique path of women paintings in the development of figure paintings can be reflected in the work of Ren Bonian, the most creative figure-painting artist in 19th century. Moreover, via the artist himself and the vertical and horizontal axis constructed from his figure paintings, I investigate the reference to and digging of women paintings, the supply of the most active nutrient for innovations by figure paintings of women-related topics to Shanghai arts, and the borrowing and conversion of women image, consumption representation and visual desire in the diversified old and new, Chinese and foreign culture. I hope this thesis can fill the gap of study on Women paintings in Ren Bonian's figure paintings, and playa role in the promotion of research on Qing's women paintings. / 周越. / Adviser: Harold Kar-Leung Mok. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-03, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-208). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Zhou Yue.

Chan, Yuen Lai. / Thesis submitted in: December 2007. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-133). / Abstracts in English and Chinese ; some text in appendix also in Chinese. / Abstract / Acknowledgement / Table of Contents / Chapter 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- PAINTER'S EXPERIENCE IN LANDSCAPE --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Bodily experience and body metaphor of place from western philosophy --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- "Jing, Guo Xi 226}0ةs three distances, and body as mountain and water" --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2 --- QUESTIONS AND HYPOTHESIS --- p.9 / Chapter 1.3 --- RESEARCH MATERIALS --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- "Forms, words and images" --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- Research materials --- p.11 / Chapter 1.4 --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.11 / Chapter 1.4.1 --- Study of gardens from paintings --- p.11 / Chapter 1.4.2 --- Research methodology --- p.14 / Chapter 1.5 --- OUTLINE OF THESIS --- p.14 / Chapter 2 --- LANDSCAPED GARDEN FROM LANDSCAPE PAINTING --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1 --- WAYS OF LANDSCAPE DEPICTION --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Early landscape depictions --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Cultivated garden in natural landscape from Six Dynasties --- p.18 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Monumental landscape in Northern Song --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2 --- EARLY QING NANJING --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- "Geographical settings: Mountain, water and city" --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Garden culture --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Artistic milieu --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3 --- CHAPTER SUMMARY --- p.26 / Chapter 3 --- GONG XIAN: HALF-ACRE GARDEN ON THE MOUNTAIN OF PURE COOLNESS --- p.32 / Chapter 3.1 --- GONG XIAN THE LITERATI PAINTER --- p.32 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Major Iiteratures on Gong Xian --- p.32 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Gong Xian as an 'individualist' painter --- p.34 / Chapter 3.2 --- HALF-ACRE GARDEN ON MOUNTAIN OF PURE COOLNESS --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Mountain of Pure Coolness as a historical site --- p.39 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Half-acre garden set within Mountain of Pare Coolness --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- A glimpse through half-acre garden --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3 --- PERMEABLE GARDEN SPACE --- p.47 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Ambiguous boundary --- p.48 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Everyday social encounters --- p.49 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Narrated landscape of the past --- p.52 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Imaginary landscape of the mind --- p.53 / Chapter 3.4 --- CHAPTER SUMMARY --- p.54 / Chapter 4 --- YUAN JIANG: ZHAN YUAN [OUTLOOK GARDEN] --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1 --- YUAN JIANG THE PROFESSIONAL PAINTER --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Major literatures on Yuan Jiang --- p.61 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Yuan Jiang as a jiehua painter --- p.62 / Chapter 4.2 --- ZHAN YUAN --- p.67 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- The evolutionary fame and popularity of the garden and its designations --- p.68 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- West Garden of Prince Zhongshan in early Ming --- p.68 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- West Nursery of Weigong in Ming Wanli reign --- p.69 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Zhan Yuan during Qing --- p.70 / Chapter 4.3 --- TRANSFIGURED GARDEN --- p.77 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- "Survey on the garden 226}0ةs sceneries, and courtly and paradisiac symbols" --- p.77 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Garden portraiture as courtly and paradisiac landscape --- p.80 / Chapter 4.4 --- CHAPTER SUMMARY --- p.82 / Chapter 5 --- SUMMARY AND POSSIBILITIES: PAINTER'S PERCEPTION OF GARDEN SPACES --- p.90 / Chapter 5.1 --- JING OF AN EXPERIENCED GARDEN --- p.90 / Chapter 5.2 --- TWO GARDEN READINGS FROM TWO ART TRADITIONS --- p.90 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Garden boundary and conception --- p.90 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Archetypal garden readings --- p.91 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Themes of the memorable and the historical past --- p.92 / Chapter 5.3 --- INSIGHTS AND POSSIBILITIES --- p.92 / Append --- p.ix / Bibliography

In Western scholarship, eighteenth century Chinese paintings have consistently been seen as playful, eccentric, and odd. This characterization has been based on the formal qualities of some of the paintings. At the same time, Chinese scholars have written of the scholarly virtues and ambitions of the painters producing the works. The contradiction between these two interpretations is in part consistent with the Western and Chinese approaches generally. But it also stems from the mixed signals and information generated in the eighteenth century. The nature of painting, not just formally, but socially has yet to be explained in a way which takes into account some actual historical contradictions of the eighteenth century. In order to explain these historical tensions, I combine a biographical (Chinese) approach with a contextual approach (Western) in a study of two different scholar painters, Zheng Xie and Li Shan. I juxtapose biographical sources with artworks, and less official writings relating Zheng Xie and Li Shan, in order to describe the tensions involved in painting for the literatus within the merchant culture of Yangzhou. These tensions existed between the literatus' expected status and that granted him, between his ideal of the role of painting in the scholar's life and the implications of commercial painting, and between his emphasis upon poetry and his popularity as a painter. In all cases, the tensions in eighteenth century literati painting arise from the difficult relationship between the painter and patron, and between the painter and the ideas of a broader public. The lack of a clear definition of "scholar" and "scholar painting" amongst literati illustrates the literatus' loss of control over the definition of his lifestyle. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate

Dans la Chine du IIIè siècle, les mutations politiques et intellectuelles considérables survenues après l’effondrement des Han favorisent l’éveil d’une conscience inédite de l’individu, ainsi que l’émergence de nouvelles tendances philosophiques (le néo-taoïsme de l’Étude du Mystère) et l’apparition d’une activité artistique en rupture avec la tradition qui s’est imposée durant quatre siècles d’hégémonie confucéenne. La musique, qui occupe une place d’élection dans la vie des lettrés, voit évoluer le statut et la pratique auxquels elle était jusqu’alors confinée, l’outil moralisateur au service de la concorde sociale s’affirmant désormais comme une distraction libre et privée, affranchie de ses finalités politiques et civilisatrices. Notre travail prend pour objet les conceptions de la musique qui ont vu le jour dans ce contexte de l’avènement esthétique et d’une valorisation sans précédent des émotions individuelles. En nous concentrant plus particulièrement sur Ruan Ji 阮籍 (210-263) et Ji Kang 嵇康 (223-262), figures de proue de la pléiade des Sept Sages de la Forêt de Bambous et éminents poètes, philosophes et musiciens, nous avons cherché à étudier la réflexion esthétique qui s’élabore dans leurs écrits autour des questions de l’origine et la nature de la musique, de ses fonctions morales et sociales, de son utilisation politique ou macrobiotique, de ses vertus éthiques ou diététiques, ou encore de son lien aux émotions. L’analyse textuelle est complétée par celle de pratiques ou de gestes musicaux : le sifflement chez Ruan Ji, la cithare chez Ji Kang, qui donnent corps aux discours et illustrent leur mise en œuvre concrète dans la vie de ces auteurs. De sorte que l’esthétique ne se définit plus seulement comme un discours, mais aussi comme un ethos, et que l’effort d’affranchissement de la musique est contemporain d’une d’émancipation des sujets mêmes de l’expérience esthétique. / In third-century China, the huge political and intellectual mutations occurring after the collapse of the Han dynasty result in the awakening of a new self-consciousness of man and the emergence of new philosophical trends (the so called Dark Learning), or also an artistic activity breaking off with four centuries of Confucian orthodoxy. Music, which occupies a privileged position in the life of literati, evolves as well, as far as its traditional status and practice are both concerned. No more considered a tool of moralization for the sake of civilized order or social harmony, it becomes a private and free distraction, emancipated from political or any other pragmatic purpose. The conceptions of music appearing in this context of nascent aesthetics provide the subject matter of our research. Focusing on Ruan Ji 阮籍 (210-263) and Ji Kang 嵇康 (223-262), two leading figures of the well-known literati group “the Seven Sages of the bamboo grove” who were also famous poets, thinkers and musicians, we attempt to examine their aesthetic thought throughout their main writings on music, concerning issues such as the origins and nature of music, its moral or social functions, its political or macrobiotic use, its ethical or dietetic virtues, and also its relation to man’s emotions. The textual analysis is completed by the study of musical practices or gestures (Ruan Ji’s whistling, Ji Kang’s playing the zither), that illustrate the effective application of their ideas in concrete life. Therefore, aesthetics does not only consist in a mere discourse, but becomes a kind of ethos, in which the emancipation of music is inseparable from that of the individual himself, through his aesthetic experience.

Chapter 1 reviews the background to the rise of art patronage studies and their development and its influence on studies of Chinese art history. It also provides alternative approaches to studying activities related to patronage and their influence and role in Chinese art history by criticising traditional analysis of Chinese art based on social and economic theories. / Chapter 2 examines the life of Wang and explores the intentions and meaning to his patronage activities through studying his political involvement, literary activities and his social background and connections. / Chapter 3 discusses how Wang, given his knowledge in history and passion for art and its collection, reinterprets art history with reference to his private collection of art, and thereby consolidating his status as a leading figure of literary and cultural circle of his time. / Chapter 4 explains and reflects on the formation of the "artist-patron" relationship through examining the relationship and interaction between Wang and the literary circle and by appraising the financial background and standing of artists and calligraphers at the time. / Chapter 5 examines the direct impact that Wang, as a literary leader and patron of the art, has on the styles and subject matter of art work by examining and decoding several pieces of art commissioned by himself, thus revealing a distinct mechanism in which art was produced at the time. / Chapter 6 discusses the "artist-patron" relationship and the "trading of cultural resources" by examining diverse pieces of art work given to Wang as gifts by different individual artists and calligraphers. / Chapter 7 analyses the significance of the patronage activities of Wang and provides a new approach to understanding the issue of traditional Chinese art patronage in Chinese art history. / Through a case study of the life of Wang Shizhen, this research attempts to analyse the influence of literary leader and patron of the arts on the development of painting and calligraphy during the mid-Ming period. By analysing the "artist-patron" relationship, this paper attempts to explain alternative mechanism through which traditional Chinese art was produced. The thesis also examines art patronage activities in Suzhou during the sixteenth century and thereby attempts to examine these activities from the broader cultural and historical context at the time. This paper is divided into seven chapters: / 鄧民亮. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2006. / 參考文獻(p. 298-320). / Advisers: Tsung-i Jao; Kar Leung Mok. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0378. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2006. / Can kao wen xian (p. 298-320). / Deng Minliang.

Despite the fact that there has been an enormous amount of jades excavated from the Western Han tombs of Chu Princes, Xuzhou in Jiangsu province, little scholarly literature has been focused on these artefacts. Based on archaeological findings, this thesis selects some significant jade objects as the focus of attention, including jade pendants, jade vessels, jade weapons, jade suites and other burial jades. As the role and value of jade is varied in the hierarchy of material within different cultural and historical context, the changes in its functions and meanings, to some extent reflects the changes in politics, economy, and society. Through tracing their origins, the identity of the owners and examining the changes in material and society, this study attempts to reveal the cultural and social value embedded in these objects, and in doing so to reconstruct the changes in material concepts and aesthetic ideologies in the Han periods. / On the basis of the achievements have hitherto in Han jade study, the present study is expected to shed light on our understanding of tomb culture and its relation to the society from a broader and more comprehensive perspective. Aside from placing specific types of jade into an accurate period or investigating their functions and sources, this study will read the object by cross reference to ancient textual material. / Using jade, a particular category of art objects, as the point of entry, this study seeks to explore and question the issue of materiality and identity within the context of tomb art, and the wider issue of cultural and social practices in the Han Dynasty. / 林巧羚. / Submitted: 2010年11月. / Submitted: 2010 nian 11 yue. / Adviser: Jenny F. So. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-04, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-396). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Lin Qiaoling.

李志綱. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2004. / 參考文獻 (p. 95-102). / 中英文摘要. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Li Zhigang. / Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Lun wen (Zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2004. / Can kao wen xian (p. 95-102).

Chuci Zhangju was compiled by Wang Yi (ca.90--ca.158) in the Eastern Han Dynasty(25--220) as an agglomeration of Chuci studies since Qin and Han Dynasties. Chuci Zhangju gathered QuYuan (ca.343--ca.277BC) and other authors' work since the Warring States period and its annotation style---Zhangjuti has been receiving high praise. / On the modern Chuci research, Chuci Zhangju is generally viewed as a mere ancillary annotation, while compared to canonical Chuci. As a result, there is no specialized work focus on Chuci Zhangju. Only scattered academic works are found, and their core concerns are doctrine of canonical texts and literary commentaries, while explanations of words and textual criticism were included sometimes. As a lack of comprehensive analysis of Chuci Zhanju is observed, my following research is carried out in four parts, including textual, annotation, the order of arrangement and interpretation analysis. / This thesis is divided into seven chapters. Chapter One is the introduction, a brief review of Wang Yi's life story and compositions, probing into the motives of Wang Yi's Chuci Zhangju. Chapter Two covers the formation process from the text Chuci to Chuci Zhangju, centering on the inherited relation between two texts. Chapter Three discusses the order of arrangement of Chuci Zhangju, suggesting that the order is related to Chuci Shiwen so as to analyze the structural system of canonical texts and its commentaries. Chapter Four centers on Wang Yi's commentaries, and further clarifies how Wang Yi has responded to predecessors' debate on QuYuan during Han Dynasty period, in order to construct and reinforce the authority for his interpretation. Chapter Five focuses on the rhymed annotation, pointing out the correlation between it and its features, forms, times, and predecessors. Chapter Six analyses the disputes over the issue Yi-yun and Huo-yue, suggesting that the existing text has been amended by people of former times, and has little relation with Wang Yi indeed. Chapter Seven is the conclusion, summarizing the key points and the major findings of the thesis. / 陳鴻圖. / Adviser: Yiu Kwan Wong. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-03, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-167). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Chen Hongtu.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Chinese