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hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First. Illustrated in color and in black and white. xii, 457 pages. Large 8vo, brown cloth with silver lettering, d.w. (creased at head). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, (2016). Near fine in a near fine dust wrapper.

25.0 x 17.0cms 458pp b/w illusts very good+ hardback & dustwrapper The essays are: an introduction to zoomorphism & anthropomorphism in Chinese art; the taotic motif on early Chinese ritual bronzes; some problems in Han & Six Dynasties iconography; representing the 12 calendrical animals as beastly human and hybrid beings in Medieval China; the didactic use of animal images in Southrn Song Buddhism the case of Mount Baoding in Dazu Sichuan; the evolution of soushan tu paintings in the Northern Song period; animals in Chinese rebus paintings; dragons & their painters in Song & Southern Song China; metaphoric rebellion in Zhao Yong''s painting of heavenly horses; intercultural signification in Ming Dynasty arts; European origins of the fantastic creatures in the Qing court painting the Manual Of Sea Oddities; Huang Yong Ping & the power of zoomorphic ambiguity.