The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture

Description

The family model has been central to patterns of social organization and cultural articulation throughout Chinese history, influencing all facets of the content and style of Chinese art. With contributors drawn from the disciplines of art history, anthropology, psychiatry, history, and literature, this volume explores the Chinese concept of family

Jerome Silbergeld is the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History at Princeton University and director of Princeton's Tang Center for East Asian Art. Dora C. Y. Ching is associate director of the Tang Center for East Asian Art. They are the coeditors of "ARTiculations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art", "Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing", and (with Judith G. Smith and Alfreda Murck) "Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong."