Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China

by Shih-Shan Susan Huang

Book Overview

Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China's primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to both earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Shih-Shan Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, and paintings, as well as other charts, illustrations, and talismans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674504283
• ISBN13: 9780674504288
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 9.9"