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Empire of Emptiness

Name: Empire of Emptiness
Author: Patricia Berger

Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China

Patricia Berger,

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Empire of Emptiness

Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China

Patricia Berger,

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Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Year

2003

ISBN

9780824862367

Edition

Topic

Art

Subtopic

Art asiatique

and

ﬁled 

away. 

One

by

one, 

they 

ﬁll 

the

pages 

of

the

catalog 

producing 

a

collapse 

of

early 

and

late,

good 

and

bad, 

into 

a

single, 

rhythmically 

organized 

whole. 

Past 

and

present 

are

really 

no

di

ﬀ

erent—

just 

as

these 

time-based 

categories 

mean 

nothing 

when 

recalling 

the

Buddha’s 

name—and 

viewing

the

list 

whole 

takes 

on

all

the

qualities 

of

repeating 

a

mantra 

as

one

Heart 

Sutra

after 

another 

marches

by,

counting 

o

ﬀ

the

weeks 

of

the

emperor’s 

pious 

practice. 

But

however 

past 

time 

may

be

counta-

ble, 

its

palpable 

materiality 

is

no

longer 

really 

within 

the

emperor’s 

grasp, 

at

least 

not

entirely. 

His

e

ﬀ

orts 

to

make 

it

whole 

through 

the

mechanism 

of

the

perfect, 

gapless 

catalog 

hint 

at

the

degree 

to

which 

his

theory 

of

governance 

was, 

in

fact, 

grounded 

in

the

materialized 

signs 

provided 

by

things.

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Raining Flowers
Chapter 1. Like a Cloudless Sky
Chapter 2. When Words Collide
Chapter 3. Artful Collecting
Chapter 4. Remembering the Future
Chapter 5. Pious Copies
Chapter 6. Resemblance and Recognition
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author