Stanley K. Abe is an associate professor of Chinese art history in the Department of Art and Art History at Duke University.
"Abe's elegant new book, packed with photographs, maps, and
diagrams, follows on decades of consistent and often spectacular
excavation and scholarship. . . . Abe reviews a good part of this
material, describing both new finds and older ones, and presenting
the new wealth of scholarship in English, Japanese, and especially
Chinese on Buddhist artifacts from early medieval China."--
"Journal of Chinese Religion"
"Abe has presented a substantive study in this book, which is
written with clarity and full of insights. The thorough
documentation of sources is invaluable for further
investigation."--Dorothy C. Wong "Journal of Asian Studies"
"Abe treats the images as case studies of specific regional and
temporal groups outside the scope of traditional surveys of Chinese
art history and engages the reader with his fresh visual insights
and conviction that ordinary images are significant in their own
right. His focus on and respect for objects and his resistance to
using them merely for rhetorical or illustrative purposes can serve
as an example to art historians and those in other fields of study
who work with visual materials."--Katherine R. Tsiang "Artibus
Asiae"
"This lavishly illustrated volume revises our understanding of
China's early medieval (200-600 CE) religious sculpture. Through an
exhaustive analysis of run-of-the-mill religious art objects and
their accompanying inscriptions, Abe skillfully demonstrates the
explanatory insufficiency of previous interpretative paradigms. . .
. For students of East Asian religion and culture, it is a
must."--Keith N. Knapp "Religious Studies Review"
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