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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (1): 51–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Shane McCausland Abstract After his expulsion from the Forbidden City in 1924, China's “last emperor,” Henry Puyi 溥儀 (1906–1967), settled in Tianjin, where he later presented parting gifts to his former English tutor, Reginald F. Johnston [Zhuang Shidun] 莊士敦 (1874–1938), among them an album...
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (1): 85–117.
Published: 01 April 2020
... tu (One Hundred Horses). The third section analyzes how the paratextual elements of Qingming shanghe , especially Qianlong's poem and inscription, inform us of the emperor's views about the production mechanism of court painting and the political meaning of this work. The last section, based...
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (1): 25–49.
Published: 01 April 2016
... in the Forbidden City before Puyi 溥儀 (1906–
1283–1331), the most famous female collector of Chinese 1967), the last emperor, brought it to his Changchun resi-
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painting and calligraphy, and his main duties included dence in the early 1930s. It was among the works looted
appraising...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (1): 97–127.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . Raswki, Evelyn S. The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1998 . Rogers, Howard . “ For the Love of God .” Phoebus 61 ( 1988 ): 141 – 60 . Rojas, Carlos . The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity...
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Archives of Asian Art (2003) 53 (1): 54–70.
Published: 01 April 2003
... of the Mhghal
seeking employment in the Mughal court, since his last emperor, Shah Alam, she had taken active part—directly
service to the French had left the British hot in his pur- and indirectly—in the maneuvering for power, in order to
suit.With four battalions and a few cannons at his dispos- benefit...
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Archives of Asian Art (2015) 65 (1-2): 117–137.
Published: 01 October 2015
...); if it con
University Art Museum,” in The Last Emperor’s Collection: nects to the “second half” of the text, the reading ren 任 is
Masterpieces of Painting and Calligraphy from the Liaoning far more compel ling. However, as noted by Fu, Traces of
Provincial Museum, ed. Willow Weilan Hai Chang et al...
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Archives of Asian Art (2007) 57 (1): 95–120.
Published: 01 April 2007
... of an aus- Park), west of the Forbidden City in Ming Beijing. The
Apicious character in ‘‘organic form’’ was invented Western Park was the permanent residence of the Jiajing
in the reign of Jiajing (1522–1566). It was a single char- emperor for the last twenty-five years of his reign, from
acter...
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Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2023
... in my achievement? 只愁我蠶飢 不愁桑樹空 衣被天下人 自不居成功 Sericulture workers clothe and blanket everyone under heaven, a deed that mirrors the duty and benevolence of an emperor. The last line of Qian's poem is as much a praise for the workers as for the Hongzhi emperor, which resonates with the overall...
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Archives of Asian Art (2003) 53 (1): 71–104.
Published: 01 April 2003
... routinely were exposed bled to undertake them. In the history of imperial China
to quantities of tribute paintings of auspicious signs, prin- only five emperors had performed these rites before Zhen-
cipally stalks of auspicious (multiheaded) grain, that were zong. (Zhenzong would be the last...
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Archives of Asian Art (2014) 64 (1): 75–92.
Published: 01 April 2014
... represents Mao and his meeting of individual
reception. In an interview, Lin Gang confirmed that he deputies nor adapts a composition from a foreign model.
appropriated the composition from Leonardo da Vinci’s Instead, it depicts Beihai Park, previously an imperial
Last Supper, but, in terms of both...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (1): 67–86.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of different social, political, and religious contexts, from city walls and palaces to imperial shrines and tombs. After the First Qin Emperor and Emperor Wu of the Han erected twin towers at the palaces they built in their pursuit of immortality, twin towers also became signifiers of the celestial realm...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (2): 131–170.
Published: 01 October 2021
... in the dedication, however, appears to narrow the date to theyears 469–471, during the reign of Emperor Xianwen (r. 465–471) after his son Toba Hong 拓跋宏, the future Emperor Xiaowen, was named crown prince and before Emperor Xianwen retired. 19 Figure 9a–c. Stone Buddha triad sculpture from Ye, Linzhang...
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Archives of Asian Art (2012) 62 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 April 2012
... of the painting also demon-
are invaluable for affirming One or Two’s lasting im- strates Qianlong’s role as a keen amateur artist active
portance to the emperor. In 1780 Qianlong was 69 by in the work’s production. The plum tree on the standing
Chinese reckoning and preparing for his seventieth screen reveals...
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Archives of Asian Art (2007) 57 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 April 2007
... ce. Line drawing. From WW1984.4.
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members of the Northern Wei clan sat on the throne planned attack against the Eastern Wei. Fortunately for
until 534. After the last Northern Wei emperor, Xiaowu the Eastern Wei, this plan was thwarted by the Turks,
(Yuan Xiu, r...
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Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 April 2017
...), the beloved consort of the Tang-dynasty emperor (r. 712–56). Blamed in part for the rebellions that led to the downfall of the dynasty, 52 her fate was recounted by the Tang-dynasty poet Bo Juyi 白居易 (772–806) in his ballad, “Song of Lasting Pain.” 53 The comparison between peonies and women also...
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (1): 73–101.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., Huaji , 61 . “During the Cheng-ho era (1111–1117), each time the emperor painted a fan, [the members of] the various residences of the Six Palaces competed in copying it, occasionally resulting in several hundred copies.” 42. 又有大小鋪席, 皆是廣大物貨, 如平津橋沿河, 布鋪、扇鋪、溫州漆器鋪、青白碗器鋪之類。且夫外郡各以一物稱最如無紗洪扇、吳錢之類。都會之下皆物...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 221–253.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and the crumbling of Mongol imperial control over China. Toghan-Temür safely arrived in Shangdu but, fearing the encroaching Ming army, he once again had to flee. Until his death in 1370, the emperor spent his last days at another small city on the steppe called Yingchang 應昌 (Inner Mongolia), reminiscing his...
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Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 April 2017
..., most notably the Battle of Dannoura, which highlight the defeat of the Taira and the last moments of Emperor Antoku before his suicide. Sin Yuhan 申維翰 (1681–1752), a scribe with the ninth Korean mission in 1719, recorded that they were prohibited to enter the hall where Antoku tennō engie...
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Archives of Asian Art (2010) 60 (1): 89–94.
Published: 01 April 2010
... of the exhibition. Also, inspired by the project
astounding collection of steles, but over the last fifty as a whole, we offer some broader comments relevant
years it has also become the custodian of a body of to the state of the field, specifically to the handling
Buddhist stone sculpture excavated in Shaanxi...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 October 2018
... lies in their very inexplicability of craftsmanship and ability to index both physical transformation as well as infinite formal transformation for the Qing empire, particularly during the reign of the Qianlong emperor (1736–1795). Descriptions of the epiphenomenon of yaobian appear intermittently...
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