The Social Lives Of Chinese Objects
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The Social Lives Of Chinese Objects
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language : en
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Release Date : 2022-12-22
The Social Lives Of Chinese Objects written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-22 with categories.
The Social Lives of Chinese Objects is the first anthology of texts to apply Arjun Appadurai's well-known argument on the social life of things to the discussion of artefacts made in China.
Memory And Agency In Ancient China
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Author : Francis Allard
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-20
Memory And Agency In Ancient China written by Francis Allard and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-20 with History categories.
Applies the 'life history' of objects approach to China's prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.
Collecting Objects Excluding People
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Author : Lenore Metrick-Chen
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-09-25
Collecting Objects Excluding People written by Lenore Metrick-Chen and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-25 with Art categories.
In Collecting Objects / Excluding People, Lenore Metrick-Chen demonstrates an unknown impact of Chinese immigration upon nineteenth-century American art and visual culture. The American ideas of "Chineseness" ranged from a negative portrayal to an admiring one and these varied images had an effect on museum art collections and advertising images. They brought new ideas into American art theory, anticipating twentieth-century Modernism. Metrick-Chen shows that efforts to construct a cultural democracy led to the creation of unforeseen new categories for visual objects and unanticipated social changes. Collecting Objects / Excluding People reveals the power of images upon culture, the influence of media representation upon the lives of Chinese immigrants, and the impact of political ideology upon the definition of art itself.
The Lives Of Chinese Objects
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Author : Louise Tythacott
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2011-06-01
The Lives Of Chinese Objects written by Louise Tythacott and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Art categories.
This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers’ and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the ‘Mongolian race’ and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years, dismembered, corroding and neglected in the stores, their histories lost and origins unknown. As the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum, the author became fascinated by these bronzes, and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery. In 2005, quite by chance, the discovery of a lithograph of the figures on prominent display in the Great Exhibition enabled the remarkable lives of these statues to be reconstructed.
Superfluous Things
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Author : Craig Clunas
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2004-05-31
Superfluous Things written by Craig Clunas and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-31 with Social Science categories.
Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes “superfluous things”—the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China—and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.
Centring The Periphery New Perspectives On Collecting East Asian Objects
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-08-21
Centring The Periphery New Perspectives On Collecting East Asian Objects written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-21 with Art categories.
Centring the Periphery: New Perspectives on Collecting East Asian Objects, edited by Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, explores East Asian collections in "peripheral" areas of Europe and North America and their relationship with the East Asian collections in former imperial and colonial centres. The authors not only present the stories of a number of less well-known individual objects and collections, but also discuss the evolution of fashions and tastes in East Asian objects in areas that were not centres of European colonial power, and the socioeconomic conditions in which they were collected. To date, research on the collecting of East Asian objects in the Euro-American region has focused primarily on larger collections and collectors. The stories from the periphery, however, deserve to be told. They point to important departures from the dominant discourses and practices of East Asian collecting, thus raising questions about established taxonomies and knowledge systems. With contributions by Tina Berdajs, Chou Wei-Chiang, Györgyi Fajcsák, Jin Han, Sarah Laursen, Beatrix Mecsi, Motoh Helena, Stacey Pierson, Maria Sobotka, Filip Suchomel, Barbara Trnovec, Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, Brigid Vance, Maja Veselič, Nataša Visočnik Gerželj, Bettina Zorn.
Nordic Private Collections Of Chinese Objects
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Author : Minna Törmä
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-27
Nordic Private Collections Of Chinese Objects written by Minna Törmä and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-27 with Art categories.
This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their homes. This leads to a reconsideration of how to define collecting and display by analysing the difference between objects serving as decorative or collectible items, while tracing collecting and display trends of the twentieth century. Minna Törmä examines four Scandinavian collections as case studies: Kustaa Hiekka, Sophus Black, Osvald Sirén and Marie-Louise and Gunnar Didrichsen, all of whom had professional backgrounds (a jeweler, two businessmen and a scholar) and for whom collecting became a passion and an educational endeavour. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies, Chinese studies and design history.
Social Life Of The Chinese
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Author : Justus Doolittle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002
Social Life Of The Chinese written by Justus Doolittle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with China categories.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Social Life Of Opium In China
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Author : Zheng Yangwen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-09-08
The Social Life Of Opium In China written by Zheng Yangwen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-08 with History categories.
In a remarkable and broad-ranging narrative, Yangwen Zheng's book explores the history of opium consumption in China from 1483 to the late twentieth century. The story begins in the mid-Ming dynasty, when opium was sent as a gift by vassal states and used as an aphrodisiac in court. Over time, the Chinese people from different classes and regions began to use it for recreational purposes, so beginning a complex culture of opium consumption. The book traces this transformation over a period of five hundred years, asking who introduced opium to China, how it spread across all sections of society, embraced by rich and poor alike as a culture and an institution. The book, which is accompanied by a fascinating collection of illustrations, will appeal to students and scholars of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and all those with an interest in China.
China In America
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Author : Stewart Culin
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-05-18
China In America written by Stewart Culin and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-18 with Fiction categories.
China in America is a book by Stewart Culin. It provides a study in the social life of the Chinese in the eastern cities of the United States while delving into local cultural themes such as feists and according gastronomical traditions.