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Conference Paper: Visualizing exemplary lives: women’s self-portraits in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China
Title | Visualizing exemplary lives: women’s self-portraits in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China |
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Other Titles | Visualizing exemplary lives: women's self-portraits in 18th-and-19th-Century China |
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Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | Association for Asian Studies. |
Citation | The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Philadelphia, PA., 27-30 March 2014. How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper examines women’s self-portraits during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in China. I am particularly interested in the category of portraits that served for the women painters as a visual means of self-promotion. By capturing crucial moments in their life-time dedication to the ideal of female virtue, while at the same time soliciting responses from elite society, these women painters used their visual representations to assert their moral authority and to seek social honor.
Although women’s self-portraits were traditionally a marginal artistic genre in China, and only very few of them have survived, in this paper I argue that an abundance of literary texts testifies to the prominence of these portraits during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I refer primarily to the inscriptions and colophons, which not only occupied the physical spaces of the portraits but also became “extended social events,” often carried out in the form of poetic exchanges among the elites. Despite the loss of the original portraits (a few do survive), many of these texts have been preserved in treatises on paintings and in women’s collections of writings. Their essentially “visual” quality, I argue, allows us a chance to reconstruct this neglected artistic genre and to hear the messages that these portraits conveyed. |
Description | Panel Paper Session - "Stories in Transit": Women’s Lives in Inter-Textual and Inter-Cultural Spaces of Late Imperial China and Beyond |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/205007 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Yang, B | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-20T01:18:37Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-20T01:18:37Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Philadelphia, PA., 27-30 March 2014. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/205007 | - |
dc.description | Panel Paper Session - "Stories in Transit": Women’s Lives in Inter-Textual and Inter-Cultural Spaces of Late Imperial China and Beyond | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines women’s self-portraits during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in China. I am particularly interested in the category of portraits that served for the women painters as a visual means of self-promotion. By capturing crucial moments in their life-time dedication to the ideal of female virtue, while at the same time soliciting responses from elite society, these women painters used their visual representations to assert their moral authority and to seek social honor. Although women’s self-portraits were traditionally a marginal artistic genre in China, and only very few of them have survived, in this paper I argue that an abundance of literary texts testifies to the prominence of these portraits during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I refer primarily to the inscriptions and colophons, which not only occupied the physical spaces of the portraits but also became “extended social events,” often carried out in the form of poetic exchanges among the elites. Despite the loss of the original portraits (a few do survive), many of these texts have been preserved in treatises on paintings and in women’s collections of writings. Their essentially “visual” quality, I argue, allows us a chance to reconstruct this neglected artistic genre and to hear the messages that these portraits conveyed. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Association for Asian Studies. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, AAS 2014 | en_US |
dc.title | Visualizing exemplary lives: women’s self-portraits in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Visualizing exemplary lives: women's self-portraits in 18th-and-19th-Century China | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Yang, B: bbyang@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Yang, B=rp01424 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 236567 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 257587 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |