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Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China

Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China Nan Nü 13 (2011) 348-368 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/156852611X602656 www.brill.nl/nanu N A N N Ü Reviews Hui-shu Lee. Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China . Seattle and Lon- don: University of Washington Press, 2010. xi + 331 pp. US $65.00. ISBN 978- 0-295-98963-1. In Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China , Hui-shu Lee recovers evi- dence of the patronage of painters, artisans, and architects by empresses and other palace women, as well as evidence of their own accomplished endeavors in literary composition and calligraphy.  e fi rst chapter of the book describes the eff orts of Empress Liu ∱䘯⎶ (969-1033) to secure the inclusion of the late Emperor Zhenzong 䛇⬿ (r. 997-1022) and of her own likeness into the religious iconogra- phies of the Song imperial temples. Lee surmises that the famous lifelike statues in the Sage Mother Hall of the Jinci 㗱䤈 Shrine in Shanxi province may have been modeled on the court of Empress Liu, to strengthen the legitimacy of her pro- longed regency during the childhood years of Emperor Renzong ṩ⬿ (r. 1022- 63).  e second chapter gathers documentary and physical evidence of the literary http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png NAN NÜ Brill

Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China

de Pee, Christian
NAN NÜ , Volume 13 (2): 348 – Jan 1, 2011
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Nan Nü 13 (2011) 348-368 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/156852611X602656 www.brill.nl/nanu N A N N Ü Reviews Hui-shu Lee. Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China . Seattle and Lon- don: University of Washington Press, 2010. xi + 331 pp. US $65.00. ISBN 978- 0-295-98963-1. In Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China , Hui-shu Lee recovers evi- dence of the patronage of painters, artisans, and architects by empresses and other palace women, as well as evidence of their own accomplished endeavors in literary composition and calligraphy.  e fi rst chapter of the book describes the eff orts of Empress Liu ∱䘯⎶ (969-1033) to secure the inclusion of the late Emperor Zhenzong 䛇⬿ (r. 997-1022) and of her own likeness into the religious iconogra- phies of the Song imperial temples. Lee surmises that the famous lifelike statues in the Sage Mother Hall of the Jinci 㗱䤈 Shrine in Shanxi province may have been modeled on the court of Empress Liu, to strengthen the legitimacy of her pro- longed regency during the childhood years of Emperor Renzong ṩ⬿ (r. 1022- 63).  e second chapter gathers documentary and physical evidence of the literary

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