Pictures of tilling and weaving
Subtitle: art, labor and technology in Song and Yuan China
By: Roslyn Lee Hammers
Publisher: Hong Kong University Pres
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Agriculture in art; Weaving in art; Chinese Art
Other titles: Art, labor and technology in Song and Yuan China
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral) under title: The production of good government : images of agrarian labor in Southern Song (1127-1279) and Yuan (1272/79-1368) China.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Reconstructing Lou Shu's Pictures of tilling and weaving; title: Pictures of tilling and weaving : reforming state and society; title: Envisioning farmer society : from hierarchy to community; title: Visual and textual discourses of the Pictures of tilling and weaving in the Song Dynasty; title: Agrarian labor imagery during the Yuan Dynasty; title: The Pictures of tilling and weaving in the Ming and early Qing Dynasties; title: Appendix A. Pictures of tilling and weaving; title: Appendix B, key documents. Lou Hong's comments on Lou Shu ; Lou Yue's essay on Lou Shu's accomplishments ; Lou Shao's comments on Lou Shu that include Wang Gang's commentary on Lou Shu ; Poem suites on agrarian tools by Mei Yaochen ; Poem suite on agrarian tools by Wang Anshi ; Preface to the Book of agriculture by Dai Biaoyuan ; Poems for the Pictures of farms and mulberries by Zhao Mengfu ; Colophon by Qugeci on the Pictures of the hard labor involved in tilling.