Pattern and Person - Ornament, Society and Self in Classical China

Illustrations xv Introduction: Graphic Patterns and Social Order 1(22) Questions of Historical Method 3(3) Art and Personality 6(4) Visual Perception and Social Order 10(3) Status 13(4) Ornament and Order 17(6) Chapter 1: Style 23(24) Social Content in Classical Ornament 23(3) Procedural Rules 26(12) Style 38(6) Style and Order 44(3) Chapter 2: Terms of Craft 47(18) Production and Style 49(4) Material and Social Measurement 53(4) Compartmental Logic and Ceremony 57(3) Compartmental Logic and Nature 60(5) Chapter 3: Abstraction 65(18) Style and Abstraction 67(1) Possession and Identity 68(3) I Figurative Ornament and Representation 71(9) Summary: Style and Status 80(3) Chapter 4: Craft 83(16) Crafting Order 84(5) The Craftsman in Early Social Discourses 89(5) Craft Officers and Government 94(5) Chapter 5: Government 99(12) Ornament and Property 106(5) Chapter 6: Labor, Invention, and "Taste" 111(26) Synthetic Macro Style 111(8) Decor and Secular Culture 119(6) Ceremony Versus Ingenuity 125(12) Chapter 7: Craft and Political Theory 137(23) Period Terms: Fa and Du 140(18) Style and Status 158(2) Chapter 8: Ornament and Identity 160(28) Hidden Dragons 166(4) Form and Knowledge 170(6) Natural Order A 176(4) The Generic Condition 180(8) Chapter 9: Bureaucracy and Agency 188(22) Academies and Cosmopolitics 188(3) The Dialectics of Agency 191(13) Bureaucratic Practice 204(6) Chapter 10: The Politics of Personhood 210(17) Figure/Ground Dialectics 213(3) Comparative Perspectives 216(11) Chapter 11: Patterns, Pictures, and Fractals 227(26) The Generic Condition of Cloud Designs 229(4) Cloud Designs at Mawangdui 233(9) Thoughts in the Clouds 242(3) The Water Cycle 245(8) Chapter 12: The Laws of Nature 253(17) Water Flow 254(11) Art and Thought 265(5) Chapter 13: Nature and Society 270(27) Politics and the People 270(3) Justice and the People 273(3) A Fluid System Model of Social Dynamics 276(12) Dao and Public Policy 288(9) Chapter 14: Identity and Possession 297(12) Independent Possession 298(11) Epilogue: Sources of Self 309(12) Reference Matter Notes 321(34) Bibliography 355(14) Index 369