Pictures of tilling and weaving: art, labor, and technology in Song and Yuan China

Contents

Reconstructing Lou Shu's Pictures of tilling and weaving -- Pictures of tilling and weaving : reforming state and society -- Envisioning farmer society : from hierarchy to community -- Visual and textual discourses of the Pictures of tilling and weaving in the Song Dynasty -- Agrarian labor imagery during the Yuan Dynasty -- The Pictures of tilling and weaving in the Ming and early Qing Dynasties -- Appendix A. Pictures of tilling and weaving -- Appendix B, key documents. Lou Hong's comments on Lou Shu ; Lou Yue's essay on Lou Shu's accomplishments ; Lou Shao's comments on Lou Shu that include Wang Gang's commentary on Lou Shu ; Poem suites on agrarian tools by Mei Yaochen ; Poem suite on agrarian tools by Wang Anshi ; Preface to the Book of agriculture by Dai Biaoyuan ; Poems for the Pictures of farms and mulberries by Zhao Mengfu ; Colophon by Qugeci on the Pictures of the hard labor involved in tilling.