Ying Zhang, Ph.D. (2010, University of Michigan), is Associate Professor of Premodern Chinese History at Ohio State University. She has published on the political and cultural history of early modern China, including Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China (University of Washington Press, 2017).

• ContentsReligion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368–1644)Creative Environment, Creative SubjectsYing ZhangAbstractKeywordsCast of CharactersIntroductionPart 11 Creative Nature and the Calendar in Prison Poetry2 The Self in Nature, Ritual, and PoetryPart 23 The Literati Art of Living in Confinement4 The Art of Living: Nourishing Life, Transcending the FormAcknowledgmentsBibliography

Ying Zhang, Ph.D. (2010, University of Michigan), is Associate Professor of Premodern Chinese History at Ohio State University. She has published on the political and cultural history of early modern China, including Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China (University of Washington Press, 2017).

• ContentsReligion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368–1644)Creative Environment, Creative SubjectsYing ZhangAbstractKeywordsCast of CharactersIntroductionPart 11 Creative Nature and the Calendar in Prison Poetry2 The Self in Nature, Ritual, and PoetryPart 23 The Literati Art of Living in Confinement4 The Art of Living: Nourishing Life, Transcending the FormAcknowledgmentsBibliography