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Category: HST 269

  • Sutra Box with Dragons Amid Clouds

    General information: This piece was made during the reign of the Yongle emperor, so it is dated between 1403-24. The piece itself is a red lacquer box with decorations inlaid with gold, it also contains a brass lock and key. This box, following its name, was made to hold a sutra (a sacred Buhdist text).…

  • Dragon Pine

    General Information: This piece was made by Wu Boli between the late 14th to early 15th centuries. Wu Boli was a Daoist priest at the Shangqing Temple on Dragon Tiger Mountain, he painted this piece for Zhang Yuchu, the 43rd Daoist “pope”. This piece is ink painted onto a hanging scroll and was based off…

  • Jar with Dragon

    General information: This porcelain jar has painted details in cobalt blue and is converted in a transparent glaze. According to the marking on the shoulder of the jar this was made in the Xuande period. That dates this jar around 1426-35. This jar was created for court. The details depict a dragon flying through the…

  • Week 15: 5-15

    For my final blog post I read about how the Emperor felt about Europeans entering China. I found the topics they mentioned very logical and I agreed very heavily with the Emperor’s points. He mentioned how the Chinese respect the Europeans beliefs but the Europeans would not respect the Chinese. As someone that’s learned European…

  • Week 11

    The Account of the Compass was an interesting read of what seemed like a type of mixed media. I enjoyed how the author mixed both prose and poetry to describe very tense events. It hadn’t occurred to me how peralice the journey would be, until I was reading through his first hand account. I feel…

  • Week 10: 5-15

    For week ten I found it really interesting to learn about the Northern Dynasties, especially after learning about the Song Dynasty. As per usual with non-Chinese dynasties, the Kitan slowly started taking on different Chinese traditions in order to claim the Mandate of Heaven. Despite this adaptation, the Kitans still held a distinct cultural identity,…

  • Week 9: 5-15

    The most interesting source I read for week 9 was “Li Qingzhao’s Life” which discussed the life of China’s greatest female poet. To start off I found it interesting how autobiographies were uncommon, it makes sense to some degree, where the people who were writing were not typically focusing on themselves but rather events around…

  • Week 8: 5-15

    For week 8 assignments I read the “Ballad of Mu-lan”. While this ballad is different from the Disney version, I would argue it’s better. In summary Mu-lan’s father gets drafted for a war, but she wants to go in his place. She travels to grab the supplies she needs and then goes off to battle…

  • Show and Tell 3: Buddhism in Tang Dynasty Art

    In the MET there are three pieces that are about Buddhism. Before we get this started I would like to say that all information and analysis I have received from the MET is labeled as “general information” while my analyses are labeled as “Eli’s Observations”. Due to this any error in my interpretations are solely…

  • Reflection 1

    Since I have been catching up with my assignments, I have begun to actively engage with the course materials more often. Rather than just reading over the texts to prepare for class, I’ve been taking notes on them in order to create my PowerPoint. Due to this I feel woefully unprepared to present the information…

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