Dreaming the Southern Song Landscape: The Power of Illusion in Chinese Painting

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The masterpiece, Dream Journey in the Xiao and Xiang Rivers has been celebrated by critics throughout its long history. Now for the first time this study locates its original historical and social context, and traces its subsequent history and the role it fulfilled at various times.

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The masterpiece, Dream Journey in the Xiao and Xiang Rivers has been celebrated by critics throughout its long history. Now for the first time this study locates its original historical and social context, and traces its subsequent history and the role it fulfilled at various times.

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Table of Contents

List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Reference System
Map of Southern Song China
Introduction 1
Ch. 1 Imaginary Refuge for Scholars and Monks Documented History of Dream Journey's Subject, Recipient, Painter, and Collectors 10
Pt. 1 Retirement Picture for a Chan Hermit 12
A Wuxing in 1170 17
B Fancied Eremitism in Xiao Xiang 28
Pt. 2 The Painter, A Literate Professional 42
Pt. 3 Transmission of Dream Journey After the Song 55
Ch. 2 The Eight Views of Xiao Xiang: Poetic Landscape Painting 64
A Foundation of the Iconology of the Eight Views of Xiao Xiang in the Northern Song 64
B Southern Song Poetic Space 73
Ch. 3 Ink Shadows of Jiangnan 100
A Historical Origins of Jiangnan Painting 101
B Natural Perfection (Tianzhen) in Boneless Inkscape: Emergence of a literati Style 106
C Artless Tranquility (Pingdan) in Light Ink 119
D Fusion Between Outer Landscape and Inner Mind 122
Ch. 4 Workings of the Artist's Mind: the Metaphysics of Poetic Dream Journeys 135
A Poetic Enlightenment 135
B The Substance of Chan Painting 140
C Cultivation of the Mind Through the Investigation of Principle 150
Conclusion: Profundity of Poetic Painting 156
Ch. 5 After Dream Journey: the Orthodox Confucian Landscape 160
A The Return to Orthodoxy in the Thirteenth Century 160
B Re-inventing Jiangnan Roots in Yuan 165
C Dong Qichang's Cleansing of Orthodox Painting in Late Ming 170
D The Qianlong Emperor Builds a Confucian Orthodoxy in Qing 176
Conclusion 177
Bibliography 179
App Chinese Texts written on Dream Journey 191
App Position and Reading of Seals on Dream Journey 196
Glossary 202
Index 209
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