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Contributors - vii
Acknowledgments - xi
Introduction - 1
Ellen Huang, Nancy G. Lin, Michelle McCoy, and Michelle H. Wang
1. The Economics of Myth: Historicizing Discourses on Metal, Soil, and Ritual under Han Wudi - 9
Filippo Marsili
2. The Portrait of Chinggis Khaan: Revisiting the Ancestral Connections - 34
Uranchimeg Tsultemin
3. A Life in Pictures: Landscape Biography in a Seventeenth-Century Parting Painting - 58
Elizabeth Kindall
4. Ineffable Gloss: Qing Ornament on Porcelain - 91
Ellen Huang and Mary Lewine
5. The Bejeweled Ascetic: Envisioning Tantric Embodiment in an Album from the Qing Court - 119
Rae Erin Dachille
6. Karmic Affinities: Rethinking Relations among Tibetan Lamas and the Qing Emperor - 158
Wen-shing Chou and Nancy G. Lin
7. Family and Nation: Qing and Meiji Imperial Family Portraits - 214
William Ma and Ryosuke Ueda
8. Ruth St. Denis as Bodhisattva: An Art Historical Perspective on the Appropriation of Buddhist Imagery - 243
Jon Soriano
9. Katsura Yuki and the Allegorical Impulse - 267
Namiko Kunimoto
10. Chun Kyung-ja and the Scandal of Beautiful Woman - 289
Sunglim Kim
