Medieval

Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China

in New Publications, Daoist art, Daoist Canon, Daoist illustrations, Daoist visual culture, Medieval, Song dynasty

Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China’s primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, paintings, and other charts, illustrations, and talismans preserved in the fifteenth-century Daoist Canon.