Veiled Beauty – Chinese Women's Art Culture

Author: Hu Ping
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Chinese needlecraft holds significant importance in shaping the character of the entire Chinese culture. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the cultural functions, humanistic implications, cultural types, and artistic characteristics of needlecraft. The functional theory highlights the "multi-functional nature" of needlecraft; the cultural theory identifies the symbolic characteristics of needlecraft and proposes the concept of the "needlecraft cultural cluster"; the typological theory introduces the concept of the "interest-based cultural circle"; and the artistic theory analyzes how the spiritual creative motivations of needlecraft lie in the "simplicity of goodness" and the "beauty of appeal," pointing out that needlecraft art is an "poeticized image," discussing the features of needlecraft's elegant, subtle, and graceful feminine temperament. This book attempts to construct a narrative framework for needlecraft culture theory using cultural anthropology concepts and methods, presenting and reinforcing this theoretical expression through extensive real and vivid needlecraft images and fieldwork visual materials.