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Contributors xv
Introduction 1
Wu Hung and Katherine R. Tsiang

Part I The Religious Body
1 On Tomb Figurines: The Beginning of a Visual Tradition 13
Wu Hung
2 Embodiments of Buddhist Texts in Early Medieval Chinese Visual Culture 49
Katherine R. Tsiang
3 Of the True Body: The Famen Monastery Relics and Corporeal Transformation in Tang Imperial Culture 79
Eugene Y. Wang

Part II Body Imagery and Self-representation
4 Fleshly Desires and Bodily Deprivations: The Somatic Dimensions of Xu Wei's Flower Painting 121
Kathleen M. Ryor
5 Illness, Disability, and Deformity in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art 147
Qianshen Bai
6. Clothes Make the Man: Dress, Modernity, and Masculinity in China, ca. 1912-1937 171
Robert E. Harrist, Jr.
Part III Body-Face Interactions in Portraiture
7 The Face in Life and Death: Mimesis and Chinese Ancestor Portraits 197
Jan Stuart
8 The Life and Death of the Image: Ghosts and Female Portraits in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literature 229
Judith T. Zeitlin
9 Essentially Chinese: The Chinese Portrait Subject in Nineteenth-Century Photography 257
Roberta Wue
Part IV Performing the Body and Face
10 The Piping of Man 283
Susan E. Nelson
11 The Kangxi Emperor's Brush-Traces: Calligraphy, Writing, and the Art of Imperial Authority
Jonathan Hay
12 Phantom Theater, Disfigurement, and History in Song at Midnight
Zhang Zhen
Reference Matter
Notes
Index