Clunas: Elegant Debts Cloth

by Craig Clunas

This book takes an innovative approach to one of the great figures of Chinese culture, the writer and painter Wen Zhengming (1470-1559). Renowned as one of the great "scholar painters" of the Ming dynasty, Wen was enmeshed in a complex web of social obligations, his "elegant debts" as he called them, which led to many of his most celebrated works. Using an unprecedented quantity of primary sources for his life and work, Elegant Debts looks at the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824827724
• ISBN13: 9780824827724
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 2.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.3"