The Social Functions of Ancient Chinese Painting Inscriptions and the Social Factors in Their Development

WANG Wenxin

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WANG Wenxin. The Social Functions of Ancient Chinese Painting Inscriptions and the Social Factors in Their Development[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2018, 1(3): 386-399.

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WANG Wenxin. The Social Functions of Ancient Chinese Painting Inscriptions and the Social Factors in Their Development[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2018, 1(3): 386-399.

WANG Wenxin. The Social Functions of Ancient Chinese Painting Inscriptions and the Social Factors in Their Development[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2018, 1(3): 386-399.

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WANG Wenxin. The Social Functions of Ancient Chinese Painting Inscriptions and the Social Factors in Their Development[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2018, 1(3): 386-399.

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The Social Functions of Ancient Chinese Painting Inscriptions and the Social Factors in Their Development

WANG Wenxin

The Palace Museum, Beijing

Received Date: 2017-10-03
Rev Recd Date: 2017-11-13

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Inscriptions written on ancient Chinese paintings are considered as painting's integral part that integrates the image into a poetic unity. This essay questions the validity of these vague discourses and proposes to understand painting inscriptions in a social context. This essay illuminates the following three factors in the development of painting inscriptions in history:social interactions, regional competition, and identity making. This essay argues that the Ming Suzhou elite intensively brought painting inscriptions into their social intercourses to such an extent that inscriptions became a distinctive mark of Suzhou paintings. This is why inscription was the target when Gushihuapu, a painting model book printed in late Ming Hangzhou, criticized Suzhou painters. Behind social interactions and regional competitions was a desire to distinguish elegance from vulgarity and associate the inscriber himself with the side of elegance.
- painting inscriptions,
- social interactions of ancient Chinese literati,
- the Zhe school,
- regional competition,
- identity making

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