Qing rulers also invested the purity of water with political significance through the construction of monumental architecture. Read more in my chapter on Baotu Spring in Visual Ecologies of Placemaking, edited by Leslie Atzmon and Pamela Stewart!
Dan Knorr
…the simultaneous materialization of these different elements implies a history of national continuity rather than dynastic rupture.
I’ve got a soft spot for the USA 94 kit, but the vivid solid colors of Brazil-Morocco is peak aesthetic for international football.
源清流潔！
Ending this writing session with 800 words *fewer* than it started with...is a win.
My chapter situates pavilions honoring the Kandi Emperor alongside the decay and reconstruction of a tower commemorating famous local poet Li Panlong and the imaginative and poetic evocation of somewhat less local poetess Li Qingzhao.
I use a gendered framework to compare the material (Li Panlong) and imaginative (Li Qingzhao) components of Baotu Spring’s visual ecology and contrast the Qing landscape to today’s, where…
That post aged like Swiss cheese on a summer day.
In the race to see who can put up the most goals on Qatar, Switzerland could be doing better.
