The Wu Liang Shrine
Douban
ISBN: 9780804720168
author:
Wu Hung
publishing house: Stanford University Press
publication date: 1989
-10
binding: Paperback
price: GBP 23.50
number of pages: 426
Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art
Wu Hung
overview
the funerary shrine of the Confucian scholar Wu Liang, created in AD 151, is the most important surviving pre-Buddhist monument in China. The importance of the shrine lies in the stone reliefs on its walls, in the remarkably comprehensive iconography of its nearly 100 scenes.
