This is the first study in a Western language devoted to one of the most visually distinctive features of the landscape in China--moya or moya shike, texts carved into granite boulders and cliffs that are part of the natural terrain at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest. These inscriptions, carved in large, bold characters, served as a vast repository of texts produced continuously for over two thousand years and constitue an important form of public art. Focusing on the period prior to the eighth century C.E ...
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This is the first study in a Western language devoted to one of the most visually distinctive features of the landscape in China--moya or moya shike, texts carved into granite boulders and cliffs that are part of the natural terrain at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest. These inscriptions, carved in large, bold characters, served as a vast repository of texts produced continuously for over two thousand years and constitue an important form of public art. Focusing on the period prior to the eighth century C.E., Harrist demonstrates that the significance of the inscriptions depends on the interaction of words with topography, so that the medium of the written work has transformed geological formations into landscapes of ideological and religious significance.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Collectible Fine First Edition Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket B/W illus. 397 pp. NOT a library copy. NOT a remainder. Deep journey into inscriptions and petroglphs in Early and Medieval China. Includes two seperate dried Mulberry leaves possibly from Fu-Sang itself! See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans of Cover Sample pages and the Two Mulberry Leaves.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Collectible Fine Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket University of Washington State, 2008. First Edition First Printing. 8vo Large Hardcover with Dust Jacket both in excellent clean collectible condition. Many Color and B/W photos and illus. Scholarly study with texts and translations of early historical and Taoist Medieval Petra glyphs. In depth and beautiful. Interestingly one mountain inscription includes 'Fu Sang' Great work, Includes two dried pressed Bodhi tree leaves within. NOT a library copy. Three Geese in Flight offering books from here in Fu Sange since 1077.
