Through a Forest of Chancellors. Fugutive Histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth Century Suzhou. F
Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 2010. Black and white illustrations, 378pp, notes, words cited, character list, index, very good copy in dustjacket. Liu Yuan's "Lingyan ge", a woodblock-printed book from 1669, re-creates a portrait gallery that memorialized 24 vassals of the early Tang court. Liu accompanied each figure, presented under the..... More