Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644

by Craig Clunas

Book Overview

Empire of Great Brightness is an innovative and accessible history of a high point in Chinese culture, seen through the riches of its images and objects. Not a simple emperor-by-emperor history, it instead introduces the reader to themes that provide stimulating and original points of entry to the culture of China: to ideas of motion and rest, to the position occupied by writing and objects featuring writing; to ideas about pleasure, about violence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824831497
• ISBN13: 9780824831493
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 10.1"