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PUBLICATION
The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture
Edited by Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C.Y. Ching
The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture book cover
Published in 2013 by P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University, in association with Princeton University Press
Hardcover  |  ISBN 9780691158594
568 pp.  |  9.5 × 6.5  |  196 halftones, 38 line illus., 10 tables, 1 map  |  bibliographies, index-glossary

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 and its impact upon artistic production. In essays ranging from the depiction of children to adult portraiture, through literary constructions of gender and the psychodynamics of cinema, authors consider the historical foundations of the family—both real and ideal—in ancient China, discuss the perpetuation of this model in later Chinese history and modern times, and analyze how family paradigms informed and intersected with art and literature.

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