Differences Preserved presents works excavated from two sets of tombs in northern China. Tomb objects from the ninth to twelfth centuries, along with reproductions of the lively and vibrant tomb wall murals, serve as the basis for a cultural reassessment of the Liao (907-1125) and Song (960-1127) dynasties. Objects such as fine ceramic pots and bowls, tea services, and furniture present a story of daily life and of how people thought of themselves. Hsingyuan Tsao's innovative analysis represents a new direction in Chinese scholarship by considering the overlooked accomplishments of non-Han groups within the history of Chinese culture.

Differences Preserved: Reconstructed Tombs from the Liao and Song Dynasties

Arts & Photography

Tsao, Hsingyuan

History & Criticism

Douglas F Cooley Memorial Art

Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

Explores how Xu Bing and other contemporary Chinese artists use Western ideas within a Chinese cultural discourse. How Chinese is contemporary Chinese art? Treasured by collectors, critics, and art world cognoscenti, this art developed within an avant-garde that looked West to find a language to strike out against government control. Traditionally, Chinese artistic expression has been related to the structure and function of the Chinese language and the assumptions of Chinese natural cosmology. Is contemporary Chinese art rooted in these traditions or is it an example of cultural self-colonization? Contributors to this volume address this question, going beyond the more obvious political and social commentaries on contemporary Chinese art to find resonances between contemporary artistic ideas and the indigenous sources of Chinese cultural self-understanding. Focusing in particular on the acclaimed artist Xu Bing, this book looks at how he and his peers have navigated between two different cultural sites to establish a third place, a place from which to appropriate Western ideas and use them to address centuries-old Chinese cultural issues within a Chinese cultural discourse.

Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

Ames, Roger T.

SUNY Press

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