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Water sprites and ancestor spirits: reading the architecture of Jinci

Art Bulletin, The,  March, 2004  by Tracy G. Miller

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Hansen, Valerie, Changing Gods in Medieval China 1127-1276 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).

Liu Dapeng (1857-1942), Jincizhi (Jinci gazetteer), vol. 1 (Taiyuan: Shanxi renmin, 1986).

McNair, Amy, "On the Date of the Shengmudian Sculptures at Jinci," Artibus Asiae 49, nos. 3-4 (1988-89): 238-53.

Miller, Tracy, "Constructing Religion: Song Dynasty Architecture and the Jinci Temple Complex," Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.

Peng Hai et al., Wenhua de laoyin: Jinci wenwu toushi (Cultural brand: Perspectives on the cultural relics of the Jin Shrine) (Taiyuan: Shanxi renmin, 1997).

Xu Song (1781-1848), comp., Song huiyao jigao (Collected important documents of the Song), recovered draft ed. (Taipei: Xinwenfeng chuban gongsi, 1976).

Tracy G. Miller earned her Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 and is assistant professor of art history at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on the art and architecture of ritual sites in medieval China, and she is presently completing a book on architecture and local religion at Jinci [Department of Art and Art History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. 37235-1801].

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