2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8365.2009.00722.x
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Scopic Frames: Devices for Seeing China c. 1640

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“…. 14 This reading proves particularly relevant and interesting when considering the practice of (imaginary) roaming through the city. 8 (Matteo Ricci, 1583-1610 In the alleys between the green bowers [brothels], love is inscribed on peach leaves, willow strands are entangled in sorrow .…”
Section: The City Of Nanjing and Its Pleasure Quartermentioning
confidence: 95%
“…. 14 This reading proves particularly relevant and interesting when considering the practice of (imaginary) roaming through the city. 8 (Matteo Ricci, 1583-1610 In the alleys between the green bowers [brothels], love is inscribed on peach leaves, willow strands are entangled in sorrow .…”
Section: The City Of Nanjing and Its Pleasure Quartermentioning
confidence: 95%
“…The hand scroll format, which could easily be held for viewing by one person only, or unrolled on a table for multiple viewings, creates scopic frames in a sort of filmic sequence. 14 This reading proves particularly relevant and interesting when considering the practice of (imaginary) roaming through the city. Considered to be a typical practice of the literati, in the social fluidity of late Ming, many cultural habits were shared with the merchant class.…”
Section: The City Of Nanjing and Its Pleasure Quartermentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Such devices are also known to have existed at least since the Sung era (960-1279) in China, where their rotating motion was triggered by the hot air of the candle. 94 It is difficult to assert whether the above sequences of images derive from the simple spectacle of the shadow-play screen or this mechanized variant, but their decomposition of movement seems doubtlessly related to this family of performative arts.…”
Section: Humor Indecency and The Literary Milieumentioning
confidence: 99%