Study on Ch''en Hung-shou''s Illustrations to Chang Shen-chih Cheng Pei Hsi-hsiang Mi Pen

• Main Authors: Hsu,Wen-Mei, 許文美
• Other Authors: Chen,Pao-Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1996
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29316180912490657661

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 藝術史研究所 === 84 === Ch''en Hung-shou''s illustrations to Chang Shen-chih Cheng Pei Hsi-hsiang Mi Pen（The Edition of Chang Shen-chih''s Correction of The Northern Western Chamber）is a very important work in Chinese art history. Many scholars discussed that work , including Huang Yung-ch''uan, Wang Po-min, James Cahill, and Hiromitsu Kobayashi. Huang and Wang think Ch''en Hung-shou''s illutrations to the woodcut print can be regarded as the representive of the popular art of his time. However, Cahill thinks that woodcut print in Ming Dynasty is the product of the literati; therefore, Chen''s work betrays the elite''s interpretion of the popular literature. Nevertheless, because Cahill emphasizes the repre- sentitiveness of Ch''en''s work, without taking the difference between his and other editions in consideration, Kobayashi futher compares Ch''en''s illustrations with other Western Chamber editions, and discerns that Ch''en''s creativity lies on creating of a new woman image. My thesis is to penetrate more deeply into the meaning of Ch''en''s illustrations to this edition, and solve the problems as follows : What is his new woman image and how does it mean to Ch''en''s literati class? And what is Ch''en''s artistic achievement in the illutrations? The first charpter of this thesis is a survey on Chang Shen-chi''s and the “Taking Part Correctors”'' roles on editing this edition. The second charpter further discusses the purpose of Ch''en''s activity of illustrating. The third charpter analizes how Ch''en combines archaic style with dramatic pose to express the figures'' inner feelings. The fourth charpter presents the creativeness of the new woman image. After these surveys, my conclusion is that this edition results from Ch''en''s emphasis on love drama, and the woman image represents the pressured women in his time.