Chapter 23
China and Korea After 1279 CE
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During the Ming Dynasty, Chinese painting developed from the achievements of the earlier Song and Yuan Dynasties.
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As with many art forms, the Ming Dynasty saw advancement in the realm of decorative arts such as porcelain and lacquerware.
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Chinese urban planning and architecture under the Ming Dynasty are based on fengshui geomancy and numerology, as seen in the Forbidden City.
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Literati Expressionism in Chinese painting was produced by scholar-bureaucrats of the Southern School, rather than by professional painters.
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The early Qing Dynasty developed in two main strands, one of which was the Orthodox school of Confucian paintings.
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During the Qing Dynasty, painters known as Individualists rebelled against many of the traditional rules of painting through free brushwork.