Collecting China: the world, China, and a history of collecting

Contents

China and china: an introduction to materiality and a history of collecting / Vimalin Rujivacharakul -- Goncourt's China cabinet: China fantasy and a nineteenth-century French collector / Ting Chang -- Robinson Crusoe's earthenware pot / Lydia H. Liu -- What is Chinese about ancient artifacts? : oracles bones and the transnational collectors Hayashi Taisuke and Luo Zhenyu / Shana J. Brown -- Making Asia out of China: Okakura Kakuzō's notions of classicism / Elizabeth Lillehoj -- Selective visions: contemporary collecting of Sino-western works on paper at the Getty / Marcia Reed -- Exporting China : the collecting taste of William and Henry Walters / C. Griffith Mann -- Rockefeller home decorating and objects from China / Stanley K. Abe -- A passion for China: Henry Francis du Pont's collection of export porcelain / Ronald W. Fuchs II -- From market and exhibition to university : Sir Percival David and the institutionalization of Chinese art history in England / Stacey Pierson -- There and back again: material objects at the first international exhibition of Chinese art in Shanghai, London, and Nanjing, 1935-1936 / Ellen Huang -- Collecting the world: sculptural ensemble of bestiary on General Huo Qubing's (140-117 BCE) tumulus / Eugene Wang -- Emperors and scholars: collecting culture and late imperial antiquarianism / Paola Dematté -- Living with art: the Yeh Family Collection and the modern practices of Chinese collecting / Wen-Hsin Yeh -- Reflections: notes on collecting in the first millennium of the common era: perspectives from west of China / Lawrence Nees.