Zhou Mi’s Record of Clouds and Mist Passing Before One’s Eyes

An Annotated Translation

• Author(s): Ankeney Weitz,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 412
• ISBN_10: 900448938X
  ISBN_13: 9789004489387
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Human Geography , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... Subject of this book is the social and cultural history of Chinese art collecting during the early years of Mongol rule in China (the Yuan dynasty, 1276-1368).
At the core of Weitz’s book is a complete translation of the Record of Clouds and Mist Passing Before One’s Eyes (Yunyan guoyan lu), an art catalog written by the Song dynasty loyalist Zhou Mi (1232-1298). This text contains detailed records of more than forty private art collections that the author saw in Hangzhou between 1275 and 1296.
The careful annotations, scholarly introduction, and well-researched appendices help to broaden our understanding of the early care and transmission of artworks, the social dimensions of art collecting, and the development of a multi-ethnic society in Yuan China.