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Stuart, “Practices of Display: The Significance of Stands for 15
Chinese Art Objects”, pp. 693-712 in Jerome Silbergeld et
al., eds., Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian art in Honor
of Professor Wen C. Fong, ( 方聞 ) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 2011; Jan Stuart, “Where Chinese Art Stands: A
History of Display Pedestals for Rocks”, pp. 85-107 in Robert D.
Mowry, Worlds Within Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum Collection
of Chinese Scholar’s rocks, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Art Museums, 1997.
16 Translation adapted from John Hay, Kernels of Energy, Bones
of Earth, p. 38; original Chinese text appears in Liang Jiutu,
Tanshi, MSCS, vol. 9, 2/7, p. 254.
17 Wu Guanghua, Qishi shangwan, n.p.
18 Apparently onomatopoeic, the term linglong originally
referred to the tinkling of jades, probably to the tinkling of
the strings of jade ornaments that were worn by the wealthy,
aristocratic classes during the Warring States period (481–221
B.C.). In succeeding periods it has come to mean “nimble and
shapely”, and is thus often used as a compliment in describing a
woman’s figure. See further discussion in Edward H. Schafer, Tu
Wan’s Stone Catalogue, p. 39.
19 Du Wan, Yunlin shipu, juan 1, in MSCS, vol. 15, 3/9, p. 60.
20 Translation adapted from John Hay, Kernels of Energy, Bones
of Earth, p. 22; original Chinese text appears in Du Wan, Yunlin
shipu, juan 1, in MSCS, vol. 15, /9, p. 59.
21 In his Taihushi ji 太湖石記 (Account of Stones from Lake Tai),
the Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易 (772–846) noted that “The species
of stone to be found in Lake Tai are the best. Next to them come
Luofu stones and then Tianzhu (i.e., Indian) stones.” Translation
adapted from Percival David, Chinese Connoisseurship, p. 164.
22 Mi Fu (1052–1107), of the Northern Song period (960–1127),
used the terms, as did most later writers on rocks. See, for
example, Mao Jin 毛晉 (1599-1659), ed., Su Mi zhilin 蘇米志林
(Records of Su Shi 蘇軾 and Mi Fu 米芾 ), Mi ji section (n.p., after
1621), p. 11a; Liang Jiutu, Tanshi, in MSCS, vol. 9, 2/7, p. 253.
23 Mao Jin, Su Mi zhilin, Mi ji section, p. 11a.

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