The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China

Roslyn Lee Hammers (University of Hong Kong)

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Routledge
31 March 2021

The Arts: General & Reference; Art styles not defined by date; Painting & paintings; Regional studies; Asian history

Series: Routledge Research in Art History

This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by successive Chinese emperors.

Furthermore, this book analyzes the genre’s imagery as well as the poems in their historical context and explains how the paintings contributed to distinctively cosmopolitan Qing imagery that also drew upon European visual styles. Roslyn Lee Hammers contends that technologically-informed imagery was not merely didactic imagery to teach viewers how to grow rice or produce silk. The Qing emperors invested in paintings of labor to substantiate the permanence of the dynasty and to promote the well-being of the people under Manchu governance. The book includes English translations of the poems of the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving as well as other documents that have not been brought together in translation.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Chinese history, Chinese studies, history of science and technology, book history, labor history, and Qing history.

By: Roslyn Lee Hammers (University of Hong Kong)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 798g
ISBN: 9780367335687
ISBN 10: 0367335689
Series: Routledge Research in Art History
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 31 March 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roslyn Lee Hammers is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong.