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Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (review)

Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (review) China Review International: Vol. 1, No. 1, applications of Confucian thinking or the issues surrounding multicultural and global education programs. Additionally, in bringing attention to Tang Junyi's thought and influence, the book honors one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. Sarah A. Mattice Sarah A. Mattice is a Ph.D. student in comparative philosophy at the University of Hawai`i at Mnoa, with interests in aesthetics, Chinese philosophy, Japanese philosophy, and philosophy of education. Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong. A China Program Book. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. 576 pp. Hardcover $65.00, isbn 978-0-295-98778-1. Zhang Yanyuan (ninth century), one of the earliest historians of Chinese art, opened his magnus opus Lidai ming huaji (Celebrated painters of all the dynasties) with the pronouncement that, "As for painting, it perfects the civilizing teachings (of the Sages) and helps (to maintain) social relationships ."1 In Accumulating Culture, Patricia Buckley Ebrey shows that Emperor Huizong (r. 1100­1125) of the Northern Song (960­1126) dynasty, not only accepted such a claim, he went to astonishing lengths to recruit all cultural objects--books, bronzes, calligraphy, and antiquities, along with painting--in his enormous imperial collections to demonstrate the complete perfection of his reign. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (review)

Hammers, Roslyn Lee.
China Review International , Volume 16 (1) – Sep 15, 2009
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China Review International: Vol. 1, No. 1, applications of Confucian thinking or the issues surrounding multicultural and global education programs. Additionally, in bringing attention to Tang Junyi's thought and influence, the book honors one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. Sarah A. Mattice Sarah A. Mattice is a Ph.D. student in comparative philosophy at the University of Hawai`i at Mnoa, with interests in aesthetics, Chinese philosophy, Japanese philosophy, and philosophy of education. Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong. A China Program Book. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. 576 pp. Hardcover $65.00, isbn 978-0-295-98778-1. Zhang Yanyuan (ninth century), one of the earliest historians of Chinese art, opened his magnus opus Lidai ming huaji (Celebrated painters of all the dynasties) with the pronouncement that, "As for painting, it perfects the civilizing teachings (of the Sages) and helps (to maintain) social relationships ."1 In Accumulating Culture, Patricia Buckley Ebrey shows that Emperor Huizong (r. 1100­1125) of the Northern Song (960­1126) dynasty, not only accepted such a claim, he went to astonishing lengths to recruit all cultural objects--books, bronzes, calligraphy, and antiquities, along with painting--in his enormous imperial collections to demonstrate the complete perfection of his reign.

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Published: Sep 15, 2009

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