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Contents
Preface
1. internalizing Ruins: Premodern Sensibilities of Time Passes
Where are the Ruins in Traditional Chinese Art?
Qiu and Xu: Erasure and Remembrance
The Stele and Withered Trees: Painting and Poetry on ‘Lamenting the Past’
Rubbing as Surrogate Ruin
Ji: Traces in Landscape
2. The Birth of Ruins: Inventing a Modern Visual Culture in China
Circulating Picturesque Ruins
War Ruins: Conquering and Survival
The Destruction, Ruination and Resurrection of the Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanming Yuan)
3. Between Past and Future: Transience as a Contemporary Aesthetic of Ruins
Signifiers of Despair and Hope
Representing Contemporary Ruins
Coda: State Legacy
References
Works Cited
Acknowledgements
Index