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Conference Paper: Representations of the pheasant in the Song and Yuan dynasties: Shifting identities of the ideal literati
Title | Representations of the pheasant in the Song and Yuan dynasties: Shifting identities of the ideal literati |
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Issue Date | 2019 |
Publisher | Chinese Studies Association of Australia. |
Citation | The 16th Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia (CSAA): Engaging Chinese Scholarship: New Directions, New Challenges, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 1-3 July 2019 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The pheasant or phasianidae, also known in Chinese as the zhi雉, jinji錦雞, shanji山雞, jinji金雞 and bi鷩is regarded a beautiful creature with colourful patterned feathers. It was an established subject matter serving as an auspicious sign for wealth and fortune in the genre of flower-and-bird painting by the Tang dynasty (618-907). My study traces the ways in which the pheasant motif came to represent the ideal scholar gentleman in the Song dynasty (960-1279) and the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). I propose that the developments in the pictorial representations of pheasant were aligned with the shift in the identity of the literati from the domination of elite men, that is the aristocrats or educated scholar-officials in the Song. In the Yuan dynasty, as wealthy merchants laid claims to culture, they emulated elite artistic practices in efforts to assert their social status. I demonstrate that the pheasant was valued as a symbol of court official with integrity in the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) and was then used as a motif to represent a victim or prey under attack in the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). The meaning of pheasant in visual representations further expanded and evolved to stand for a loyalist recluse scholar and wealthy educated elite in Jiangnan in the Yuan dynasty. |
Description | Panel Session F4: Interpreting Nature in Song/Yuan Literature and Art |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/279105 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | LEUNG, GY | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-21T02:19:42Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-21T02:19:42Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 16th Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia (CSAA): Engaging Chinese Scholarship: New Directions, New Challenges, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 1-3 July 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/279105 | - |
dc.description | Panel Session F4: Interpreting Nature in Song/Yuan Literature and Art | - |
dc.description.abstract | The pheasant or phasianidae, also known in Chinese as the zhi雉, jinji錦雞, shanji山雞, jinji金雞 and bi鷩is regarded a beautiful creature with colourful patterned feathers. It was an established subject matter serving as an auspicious sign for wealth and fortune in the genre of flower-and-bird painting by the Tang dynasty (618-907). My study traces the ways in which the pheasant motif came to represent the ideal scholar gentleman in the Song dynasty (960-1279) and the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). I propose that the developments in the pictorial representations of pheasant were aligned with the shift in the identity of the literati from the domination of elite men, that is the aristocrats or educated scholar-officials in the Song. In the Yuan dynasty, as wealthy merchants laid claims to culture, they emulated elite artistic practices in efforts to assert their social status. I demonstrate that the pheasant was valued as a symbol of court official with integrity in the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) and was then used as a motif to represent a victim or prey under attack in the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). The meaning of pheasant in visual representations further expanded and evolved to stand for a loyalist recluse scholar and wealthy educated elite in Jiangnan in the Yuan dynasty. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Chinese Studies Association of Australia. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | 16th Biennial Conference of Chinese Studies Association of Australia | - |
dc.title | Representations of the pheasant in the Song and Yuan dynasties: Shifting identities of the ideal literati | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 307912 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Australia | - |