Collecting China

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Collecting China is a unique collection of essays that brings together theories of materiality and what collecting has meant to various peoples over time. Collecting China grew out of a simple question: how does a thing become Chinese? Fifteen essays explore this question from different angles, ranging from close examination of world-renowned private collections to critical reinterpretations of historical writings.

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Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
Author : Vimalin Rujivacharakul
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release : 2011
File : 235 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781611490060


Collecting China

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During a relatively short period, from around 1765 to 1780, the Dutch lawyer Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807) was intensely engaged in the study of Chinese culture. Befriended VOC officials and their Chinese relations in Canton collected Chinese objects for him and helped him with his greatest ambition: the composition of a Chinese dictionary. The objects were given a home in his museum on the Herengracht in The Hague. Better than travel journals, they gave a picture of life in China in Royer’s time. Because the selection was largely made by modest Chinese traders, the collection does not so much give a picture of the material culture of the Chinese elite, but rather that of the ambitious, upwardly-mobile world of small traders and craftsmen. These are mostly ephemeral objects that have rarely been preserved, but they came to The Hague, thanks to Royer and his Chinese contacts. A bequest from his widow then ensured that the collection ended up in two Dutch museums: Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where the objects are still present today.

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Genre : History
Author : Jan van Campen
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Release : 2022-03-14
File : 299 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789087049355


How To Collect Invest In China Stamps

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Many years back, stamp collecting was an extra-curricular activity of school kids around the world. Modern technology was thought to have killed this hobby due to the decrease in the usage and demand of postage stamps. Out of surprise, this turned out to be untrue. Out of 60 million stamp collectors around the world, one third come from China. Wealthy Chinese are now beginning to buy back their heritage on a massive scale. Investors are laughing their way to the bank with significant gains on their China stamp portfolio. This 268-page book, fully illustrated with pictures, reveals everything you need to know about China stamps and how to build a solid collection for potential future liquidation.

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Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
Author : Richard Tang
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release : 2017-04-21
File : 264 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781365907524


Collecting And Displaying China S Summer Palace In The West

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In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays—especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château of Fontainebleau—tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself.

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Genre : Art
Author : Louise Tythacott
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2017-10-25
File : 345 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351624893


Godey S Lady S Book

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Genre : Costume
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Release : 1897
File : 676 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951D00319595Y


Lippincott S Magazine Of Literature Science And Education

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Genre : Education
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Release : 1869
File : 710 Pages
ISBN-13 : CUB:U183020094118


Lippincott S Monthly Magazine

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Release : 1869
File : 722 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951000970819R


The Century Dictionary And Cyclopedia The Century Dictionary Prepared Under The Superintendence Of William Dwight Whitney Rev Enl Under The Superintendence Of Benjamin E Smith

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Genre : Atlases
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Release : 1911
File : 866 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015036876921


China And Southeast Asia

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Spanning over a millennium of history, this book seeks to describe and define the evolution of the China–Southeast Asia nexus and the interactions which have shaped their shared pasts. Examining the relationships which have proven integral to connecting Northeast and Southeast Asia with other parts of the world, the contributors of the volume provide a wide-ranging historical context to changing relations in the region today – perhaps one of the most intense re-orderings occurring anywhere in the world. From maritime trading relations and political interactions to overland Chinese expansion and commerce in Southeast Asia, this book reveals rarely explored connections across the China–Southeast Asia interface. In so doing, it transcends existing area studies boundaries to present an invaluable new perspective to the field. A major contribution to the study of Asian economic and cultural interactions, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history, as well as those engaged with Southeast Asia.

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Genre : History
Author : Geoff Wade
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2018-12-19
File : 398 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780429952135


The Age Of Silver

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The Age of Silver advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the Age of Silver, Ning Ma emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial co-evolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms. The main texts addressed within include The Plum in the Golden Vase (China), Don Quixote (Spain), The Life of an Amorous Man (Japan), and Robinson Crusoe (England). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansions' stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with politically critical functions and connote "heteroglossic" national imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. The Age of Silver challenges the unilateral equation between globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of world literature and historical transcultural relations.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Ning Ma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2016-11-24
File : 281 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780190606572