Footnotes

  1. Chinese Art, p. 7. Mary Tregear, Oxford University Press, 1980.
  2. The Horizon Book of the Arts of China, p.35. Edited by Horizon Magazine, American Heritage Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1969.
  3. "Wishes and Riddles: Symbolic Imagery in Chinese Art," p.1. Educational Resource Pack, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Visit their Website at http://www.asianart.org
  4. "The Joseph E. Hotung Gallery of Oriental Antiquities: China," Leaflet, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
  5. "Wishes and Riddles," p.1.
  6. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "rebus" as a representation of syllables or words by means of pictures, or a riddle composed of such pictures.
  7. The Horizon Book of the Arts of China, p.35.
  8. Ibid.,p.36.
  9. "Legacy and Transition of Ink Painting: Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting from Taiwan," p.1, http://www.c-c-c.org/ex/ink/ink.html
  10. The Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art, pp.5, 89, 183, defines "Literati" painting as a unique tradition which regards the painter who is not a professional, but a scholar, official or man of letters who does not live by his painting, as superior to the professional artist who sells his work. Hugo Munsterberg, Hacker Art Books, New York, 1981.
  11. "Historical Development of Women's Art in Taiwan," p.1, http://web.ukonline.co.uk/n.paradoxa/lai.htm
  12. "Legacy and Transition of Ink Painting," p.1.
  13. Ibid., p.1.
  14. The traditional social norms consisted of the "three obediences", which taught that a woman was to obey her father before marriage, her husband after marriage, and her son during widowhood; and the "four virtues," which were fidelity, physical charm, propriety in speech, and efficiency in needlework. From "Historical Development of Women's Art in Taiwan," p.3.
  15. "Legacy and Transition of Ink Painting," p.2.
  16. "Historical Development of Women's Art in Taiwan," p.6.

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