书名：Remembrance in Clay and Stone: Early Memorial and Funerary Art of Southwest China / 泥土与石头中的记忆：中国西南早期纪念与丧葬艺术
定价：535.0
ISBN：9780231217101
作者：Hajni Elias
版次：1
出版时间：2025-03

内容提要：
书名：Remembrance in Clay and Stone: Early Memorial and Funerary Art of Southwest China / 泥土与石头中的记忆：中国西南地区的早期纪念与丧葬艺术
作者：Hajni Elias
出版社：Columbia University Press，2025年
装帧：精装，360页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.6*23.5 cm (6.12 x 9.25 英寸)

ISBN：978-0-2312-1710-1

简介
本书探讨了中国西南地区（今四川省）在东汉时期（公元25-220年）的纪念与丧葬艺术传统。该地区的艺术长期以来在风格和内容上被认为与中原地区不同。书中介绍了该地区丰富的物质文化，包括画像砖、明器（冥器）、陶俑、装饰石棺、建筑门阙以及纪念性和祖先碑刻。作者结合早期文献分析，阐释了该地区独特的地理、文化、社会和经济背景下产生的艺术特征与实践，并将其置于更广阔的汉代文化框架中，为理解早期中国社会的丧葬与纪念实践提供了新视角。
英文简介

This book examines the memorial and funerary art of Southwest China, present day Sichuan province, in early imperial times. It introduces the region‘s rich material culture from the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE), which includes pictorial brick tiles, mingqi or spirit vessels, pottery figures, decorated stone sarcophagi, architectural gate towers and commemorative and ancestral stelae. The art of the Southwest has long been considered distinct for its style and content which differs considerably from contemporaneous tomb and memorial art produced in other parts of the Han Empire, especially that of the Central Plains, considered as the heartland of Chinese civilization. With a focus on the Southwest’s material culture combined with analysis of early textual sources, the book sheds light on some of the distinct traits and practices borne out of the rich geographical, cultural, social and economic tapestry of this region. It also places the Southwest in a broader cultural and historical framework to supplement our current understanding of Chinese society and its mortuary and memorial practices in early imperial times. Overall, the book showcases the quality and breadth of achievement of artisans and craftsmen in a region traditionally thought of as an uncultured backwater of the Han Empire and supplements our current understanding of how early societies recorded and memorialized significant events in their lives.