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Approaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture. The Ming is known for its extraordinary cultural and economic accomplishments in the increasingly globalized early modern world. For scholars of Chinese religion and art, this era crystallizes the essential and enduring characteristics in these two spheres. Drawing on scholarship on Chinese philosophy, religion, aesthetics, poetry, music, and visual and material culture, Zhang illustrates how the prisoners understood their environment as creative and engaged it creatively. She then offers a literature survey on the characteristics of premodern Chinese religion and art that helps situate the questions of “creative environment” and “creative subject” within multiple fields of scholarship.

Prisoners as artists --- Arts in prisons --- Art and religion --- History. --- 1368-1912 --- China --- History

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SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Penology --- Arts in prisons --- Prisoners as artists --- Community arts projects --- Prisoners --- Education --- Prison Creative Arts Project --- History. --- Convicts --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Art projects, Community --- Arts projects, Community --- Community art projects --- Community-based arts projects --- Neighborhood arts projects --- Neighborhood-based arts projects --- Projects, Community arts --- Arts --- Artists and community --- Artists --- Prisons --- Inmates --- PCAP --- Persons --- Art in prisons