Author: Berger, Patricia.
Title: Empire of emptiness. Buddhist art and political authority in Qing China.
Description: Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2003. VIII,266 pp. Ills (some col.). Orig. hardcover (green cloth), d./j.Imperial Manchu support and patronage of Buddhism, particularly in Mongolia and Tibet, has often been dismissed as cynical political manipulation. Empire of Emptiness questions this generalization by taking a fresh look at the huge outpouring of Buddhist painting, sculpture, and decorative arts Qing court artists produced for distribution throughout the empire. It examines some of the Buddhist underpinnings of the Qing view of rulership and shows just how central images were in the carefully reasoned rhetoric the court directed toward its Buddhist allies in inner Asia. - Text in English.

Keywords: Asian art China Ethnography Asia China Theology Buddhism Aziatische kunst Etnografie Azië Theologie Boeddhisme