title: The Chinese Classical Novel “Dream in the Red Chamber” in the Woodblock Illustrated Editions and Popular Woodblock Prints from the Collections of Saint Petersburg
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metadata.value: Zavidovskaia, Ekaterina A.
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metadata.value: Maiatckii, Dmitri I.
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metadata.value: 2020-07-15T18:21:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-07-15T18:21:13Z
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metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.value: Zavidovskaia E. A., Maiatskii D. I. The Chinese Classical Novel “Dream in the Red Chamber” in the Woodblock Illustrated Editions and Popular Woodblock Prints from the Collections of Saint Petersburg. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 2, pp. 156–177.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2020.201
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/18683
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metadata.value: The study focuses on the illustrated woodblock editions of the renown Chinese classical novel
  Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Хueqin (1715–1763), as well as albums and popular
  woodblock prints (or nianhua 年畫) featuring protagonists and scenes from the novel. The
  books and popular prints discussed in this study were found at the Oriental Section of the
  M. Gorky Academic Library (Saint Petersburg State University) and Russian museums: the
  State Hermitage, the State Museum of the History of Religion, Museum of Anthropology and
  Ethnography RAS etc. Aim of the study is to reveal specific methods of portraying scenes
  and protagonists in book illustrations and popular prints and explain their differences. While
  illustrated books should have met tastes of the literate audience, popular woodblocks were appreciated
  by both illiterate and literate rural and urban population, who primarily valued their
  auspicious meaning. The paper shows differences between book illustrations and woodblock
  prints, revealing connections between albums and popular prints. The latter even though followed
  old conventions of composition, line and coloring received stylistic influence of the
  recognized painter Gai Qi (1773–1828) and his album with portraits of female protagonists
  (1879). Another painter Qian Huian (1833–1911) was invited to help printing houses with
  setting standards of depicting scenes from the novel. It is worth mentioning thatartists who
  produced popular prints at Yangliuqing had favorite themes, scenes and protagonists, which
  met the tastes of wide public.
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metadata.value: This study was funded by the Russian Fund of the Fundamental Research (RFFI) №19-59-
  52001 МНТ_а “Commerce, folk beliefs, arts on the traditional Chinese woodblock pictures from little
  studied collections of Russia and Taiwan”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chinese popular print
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metadata.value: book illustration
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metadata.value: novel Dream of the Red Chamber
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian collections
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: motifs
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Chinese Classical Novel “Dream in the Red Chamber” in the Woodblock Illustrated Editions and Popular Woodblock Prints from the Collections of Saint Petersburg
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metadata.value: Article
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