【书讯】Hajni Elias（薛好佩）：《泥土与石头中的追忆：中国西南早期纪念与葬礼艺术》

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Remembrance in Clay and Stone Early Memorial and Funerary Art of Southwest China Hajni Elias薛好佩 Columbia University Press MAIN This book explores the memorial and funerary artistic traditions of Southwest China during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). In early imperial times, the art of this region—present-day Sichuan province—differed in both style and content from tomb and memorial art produced in other parts of the Han empire, especially that of the Central Plains, considered the heartland of Chinese civilization. Although this region was described in contemporaneous accounts as an uncultured backwater, it had a vibrant and sophisticated artistic tradition. Hajni Elias examines the Southwest’s rich material culture, which includes pictorial brick tiles, mingqi or spirit vessels, pottery figurines, decorated stone sarcophagi, architectural gate towers, and commemorative and ancestral stelae. She sheds light on the distinct traits and practices that arose from the reg ………………………………