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James, Joseph M

 
9786043907964: Hunting in Eastern Han Tombs
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 6043907968 ISBN 13: 9786043907964
Editorial: Ali Shah Publisher, 2023

Sinopsis

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.

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Editorial
Ali Shah Publisher
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
6043907968
ISBN 13 
9786043907964
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
138
Contacto del fabricante
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