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Some Elements in the

Intellectual and
Religious Context of
Chinese Art

Patricia Ebrey

Professor, Department of History,
University of Washington

As with the art of any other great

civilization, that of China has been

intimately linked to ideas generally

classified under the rubric religion and

—philosophy ideas about life and death,

human nature and human society, the

natural world of mountains and streams,

plants and animals, and the invisible

world of gods, ghosts, spirits, and demons.

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