Recarving China’s Past

Winner of the Honorable Mention for the 2005 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award given by the Art Libraries Society of North America

The “Wu Family Shrines,” one of the most important cultural monuments of early China, comprise approximately fifty stone slabs from the so-called Wu cemetery in Shandong province. Depicting emperors and kings, heroic women, filial sons, and myt...

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Winner of the Honorable Mention for the 2005 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award given by the Art Libraries Society of North America

The “Wu Family Shrines,” one of the most important cultural monuments of early China, comprise approximately fifty stone slabs from the so-called Wu cemetery in Shandong province. Depicting emperors and kings, heroic women, filial sons, and mythological subjects, these famous carved and engraved reliefs may have been intended to reflect such basic themes as loyalty to the emperor, filial piety, and wifely devotion; centuries later, they vividly bring to life the art, social conditions, and Confucian ideology of the Eastern Han.

This generously illustrated book examines the stone slabs and their rubbings as artifacts with a complex cultural history from the second century to the present, and addresses questions about the traditional identification of the structures as Han dynasty shrines of the Wu family. Written by a team of distinguished scholars in the fields of Chinese art and history, the book includes a novel examination of Han burial items in relation to burial belief, pictorial carvings, and funerary architecture.

Table of Contents
Director’s Foreword Susan M. Taylor
Curator’s Preface and Acknowledgements Cary Y. Liu
Map
Chronology
Introductory Essay The “Wu Family Shrines” as a Recarving of the Past Cary Y. Liu
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Table of Contents
Director’s Foreword Susan M. Taylor
Curator’s Preface and Acknowledgements Cary Y. Liu
Map
Chronology
Introductory Essay The “Wu Family Shrines” as a Recarving of the Past Cary Y. Liu
Appendix to Introductory Essay: Huang Yi, Xiu Wushi ji lue (Brief record on building the Wu Family Shrine [Preservation Hall])
Keynote Essay Funerary Practice in Han Times Michael Loewe

Catalogue Part One: The “Wu Family Shrines”
Catalogue Number 1: “Wu Family Shrines” The Princeton Rubbings Cary Y. Liu and Eileen H. Hsu
Stone Chamber 1 (Front Chamber) Cary Y. Liu and Eileen H. Hsu
Stone Chamber 2 (Left Chamber) Cary Y. Liu and Eileen H. Hsu
Stone Chamber 3 (Wu Liang Shrine) Cary Y. Liu and Eileen H. Hsu
Gate Pillars, Stele, “Fourth Chamber,” and Qing Dynasty Inscriptions Cary Y. Liu
Supplement: Pictoral Column from a “Wu Family Shrines” Two-Bay Stone Chamber Cary Y. Liu
Catalogue Part Two: Brilliant Artifacts
The Concept of “Brilliant Artifacts” in Han-Dynasty Burial Objects and Funerary Architecture: Embodying the Harmony of the Sun and the Moon Cary Y. Liu
Catalogue Numbers 2-64 Anthony Barbieri-Low, Susan L. Beningson, Virginia Bower, Albert Dien, Susan N. Erickson, Ingrid Furniss, Eileen H. Hsu, Annette L. Juliano, Hiromi Kinoshita, Guolong Lai, Cary Y. Liu, David T. Liu, Sheri A. Lullo, Filippo Marsili, Michael Nylan, Elinor Pearlstein, Klaas Ruitenbeek, David A. Sensabaugh, Nancy S. Steinhardt, Lydia Thompson, and Haicheng Wang
Thematic Essays
Sword-Bearer Lamp: The Bronze Caster’s Art Anthony Barbieri-Low
Sword-Bearer Lamp: Warring States Lamps Albert Dien
Bi Discs of Jade and Glass Elinor Pearlstein
Hu or Zhong Vessels Elinor Pearlstein
Chariot Canopy Shaft Fitting: Potent Images and Spatial Configurations from Han Tombs to Buddhist Caves Susan L. Beningson
Eared Cups: “Suitable for Wine and Food” Hiromi Kinoshita
Regional Iconographies in Images of the Queen Mother of the West Sheri A. Lullo
Images of Mountains: Boshanlu, Hill Jars, and Hu Vessels Susan N. Erickson
The Bear Motif during the Han Dynasty Hiromi Kinoshita
Horses in the Mortuary Arts of the Han Dynasty Annette L. Juliano
Coins and Coin Moulds Anthony Barbieri-Low
Research Essays
Carving Out at Living: Stone-Monument Artisans during the Eastern Han Dynasty Anthony Barbieri-Low
“Addicted to Antiquity” (nigu): A Brief History of the “Wu Family Shrines,: 150-1961 CE Michael Nylan
I. Introduction
II. Stele Summary
III. The Wu Liang Pictorial Stones: The Literary Evidence
Reconfiguring the “Wu Family Shrines”: A Typological Study Cary Y. Liu
Selected Bibliography
Glossary-Index
Photography Credits
Tables and Foldouts:
Stone Chamber 1
Stone Chamber 2
Stone Chamber 3
Additional Tables:
Column Stones
Gate-Pillars, Statues, Steles, and Inscriptions
Miscellaneous Slabs
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