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Author:   Vimalin Rujivacharakul ,  Stanley K. Abe ,  Shana J. Brown ,  Ting Chang
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   University of Delaware Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 29.00cm
Weight:   0.930kg
ISBN:  

9781611490060

ISBN 10:   1611490065
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   14 February 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 List of Illustrations Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 China and china: An Introduction to Materiality and a History of Collecting Part 4 Part I: China and the World: Romance and Praxis in Transcultural Collecting Chapter 5 Goncourt's China Cabinet: China Fantasy and a Nineteenth-Century French Collector Chapter 6 Robinson Crusoe's Earthenware Pot Chapter 7 What is Chinese About Ancient Artifacts?: Oracle Bones and the Transnational Collectors Hayashi Taisuke and Luo Zhenyu Chapter 8 Making Asia out of China: Okakura Kakuzo's Notions of Classicism Chapter 9 Selective Visions: Contemporary Collecting of Sino-Western Works on Paper at the Getty Part 10 Part II: China and the World: Art Market and Modern Trade Chapter 11 Exporting China: The Collecting Taste of William and Henry Walters Chapter 12 Rockefeller Home Decorating and Objects from China Chapter 13 A Passion for China: Henry Francis du Pont's Collection of Export Porcelain Chapter 14 From Market and Exhibition to University: Sir Percival David and the Institutionalization of Chinese Art History in England Chapter 15 There and Back Again: Material Objects at the First International Exhibitions of Chinese Art in Shanghai, London, and Nanjing, 1935–1936 Part 16 Part III: China and the World: When China Collected Chapter 17 Collecting the World: Sculptural Ensemble of Bestiary on General Huo Qubing's (140–117 BCE) Tumulus Chapter 18 Emporers and Scholars: Collecting Culture and Late Imperial Antiquarianism Chapter 19 Living with Art: The Yeh Family Collection and the Modern Practices of Chinese Collecting Chapter 20 Reflections: Notes on Collecting in the First Millennium of the Common Era: Perspectives from West of China Chapter 21 Bibliography Chapter 22 Notes on Contributors Chapter 23 Index

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Collections strong in Chinese history and culture as well as Chinese collecting need this! Midwest Book Review

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Vimalin Rujivacharakul is assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware.

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