Hunting in Eastern Han Tombs - Softcover

James, Joseph M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6043907968 ISBN 13: 9786043907964

Verlag: ALI SHAH PUBLISHER, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

During the first and second centuries CE colonists living along the Northern Frontier of the Han Empire built tombs with stone doorways that depicted scenes of the hunt. These reliefs depict a fabulous world inhabited by mounted archers, hybrid xian (immortals) and frolicking/fleeing animals. Within these reliefs there is also a limited tendency to draw on the alternate lifestyles of the Xiongnu, a confederation of northern nomadic tribes who served as both neighbor and foe to the Han Chinese who lived in this area. Previous scholarship has seen hunting imagery in these reliefs as passive reflections of the mixed culture and economy of the region. I instead maintain that it was part of an iconographical program that depicted and facilitated the passage of the deceased to paradise across the dangerous borderlands between Heaven and Earth.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ALI SHAH PUBLISHER
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 6043907968
• ISBN 13: 9786043907964
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 138
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