Haiguo Tuzhi （Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms） is one of the earliest gazetteers in early modern China. In order to change the Chinese view of the outside world, scholax-official Wei Yuma （1794-1857）...Haiguo Tuzhi （Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms） is one of the earliest gazetteers in early modern China. In order to change the Chinese view of the outside world, scholax-official Wei Yuma （1794-1857） mad his contemporaries compiled this gazetteer in the middle of the 19th century. Haiguo Tuzhi contains numerous geographical, historical, mad political details covering both the western and eastern hemispheres, which derived from the known information on Western researches and Chinese macient texts from the Tang Dynasty （618-907） to Ming Dynasty （1368-1644）. Haiguo Tuzhi is a significmat work in China, which affected the modernization movement around East Asia, such as Meiji Restoration in Japma. There axe two juan, or scrolls concerning Turkey （the Ottoman Empire）, called southern Duluji （Turkey） mad northern Tuluji （Turkey）, in Haiguo Tuzhi＇s ＂Southwest Ocean＂ part and ＂Great West Ocema＂ part covering the origin of Turkish state, the geographical location and circumstance of Turkey, the distribution of ethnic groups throughout this country, the relationship between Turkey and European countries, the religious situation, mad the policies carried out by Turkish monarchs. Although Haguo Tuzhi is a pmaoramic opus which focuses on the whole outline of countries, it also documents plenty details about Turkish clothing, dietary habits, and characters of people. Haguo Tuzhi provides a chmace to learn the Chinese impressions on Turkish state and people in 19th century展开更多
Envisioned as a practice-based research, this paper explored Chinese traditional folk arts and crafts with a focus on traditional decorative patterns, vivid colors, and symbolic motifs that enliven Foshan style paper-...Envisioned as a practice-based research, this paper explored Chinese traditional folk arts and crafts with a focus on traditional decorative patterns, vivid colors, and symbolic motifs that enliven Foshan style paper-cuttings, New Year wood block prints, paper kites, festival lanterns, and Shiwan pottery figures from the areas of Foshan and Shiwan, near Guangzhou, China. The goal of this research was to create a series of original paintings by investigating Chinese traditional folk arts and handcrafts and integrating them physically or ichnographically on Ho＇s new body of paintings. Chinese traditional motifs including Chinese characters and Buddhist iconographies had already been important motifs in the contemporary Western paintings of Kong Ho for the past 10 years. This paper examined not only the artistic, cultural, and historical values but also the impacts of Chinese traditional folk arts and era~ on Ho＇s painting through a personal research travel and studies of a certain amount of Chinese paper-cuttings, folk prints, pottery, and handcrafts found in the famous Foshan Folk Art Studio and Foshan City Shiwan Ceramics Factory in Foshan, China. Furthermore, this paper investigated the symbolic meanings founded in Ho＇s spiritual paintings with strong Chinese heritage and how he reinterpreted those artifacts in a contemporary context.展开更多
文摘Haiguo Tuzhi （Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms） is one of the earliest gazetteers in early modern China. In order to change the Chinese view of the outside world, scholax-official Wei Yuma （1794-1857） mad his contemporaries compiled this gazetteer in the middle of the 19th century. Haiguo Tuzhi contains numerous geographical, historical, mad political details covering both the western and eastern hemispheres, which derived from the known information on Western researches and Chinese macient texts from the Tang Dynasty （618-907） to Ming Dynasty （1368-1644）. Haiguo Tuzhi is a significmat work in China, which affected the modernization movement around East Asia, such as Meiji Restoration in Japma. There axe two juan, or scrolls concerning Turkey （the Ottoman Empire）, called southern Duluji （Turkey） mad northern Tuluji （Turkey）, in Haiguo Tuzhi＇s ＂Southwest Ocean＂ part and ＂Great West Ocema＂ part covering the origin of Turkish state, the geographical location and circumstance of Turkey, the distribution of ethnic groups throughout this country, the relationship between Turkey and European countries, the religious situation, mad the policies carried out by Turkish monarchs. Although Haguo Tuzhi is a pmaoramic opus which focuses on the whole outline of countries, it also documents plenty details about Turkish clothing, dietary habits, and characters of people. Haguo Tuzhi provides a chmace to learn the Chinese impressions on Turkish state and people in 19th century
文摘Envisioned as a practice-based research, this paper explored Chinese traditional folk arts and crafts with a focus on traditional decorative patterns, vivid colors, and symbolic motifs that enliven Foshan style paper-cuttings, New Year wood block prints, paper kites, festival lanterns, and Shiwan pottery figures from the areas of Foshan and Shiwan, near Guangzhou, China. The goal of this research was to create a series of original paintings by investigating Chinese traditional folk arts and handcrafts and integrating them physically or ichnographically on Ho＇s new body of paintings. Chinese traditional motifs including Chinese characters and Buddhist iconographies had already been important motifs in the contemporary Western paintings of Kong Ho for the past 10 years. This paper examined not only the artistic, cultural, and historical values but also the impacts of Chinese traditional folk arts and era~ on Ho＇s painting through a personal research travel and studies of a certain amount of Chinese paper-cuttings, folk prints, pottery, and handcrafts found in the famous Foshan Folk Art Studio and Foshan City Shiwan Ceramics Factory in Foshan, China. Furthermore, this paper investigated the symbolic meanings founded in Ho＇s spiritual paintings with strong Chinese heritage and how he reinterpreted those artifacts in a contemporary context.
