Reinventing the past: archaism and antiquarianism in Chinese art and visual culture

Contents

Introduction. Patterns of returning to the ancients in Chinese art and visual culture / Wu Hung -- I. Archaism, antiquarianism, and Chinese art history. Reviving ancient ornament and the presence of the past: examples from Shang and Zhou bronze vessels / Jessica Rawson -- Antiquarianism in Eastern Zhou bronzes and its significance / Lothar von Falkenhausen -- Imitation and reference in China's pictorial tradition / Martin J. Powers -- II. Recontextualizing the past. Antiquarianism and re-envisioning empire in the Late Northern Wei / Katherine R. Tsiang -- Reinventing the past, inventing a dynasty: inspiration of monuments of the past and Tang dynastic topography / Tonia Eckfeld -- Replicating Zhou bells at the Northern Song court / Patricia Ebrey -- III. Technologies of antiquarianism. Cataloguing antiquity: a comparative study of the Kaogu tu and Bogu tu / Yun-Chiahn C. Sena -- Antiquarian politics and the politics of antiquarianism in Ming regional courts / Craig Clunas -- Between printing and rubbing: Chu Jun's illustrated catalogues of ancient monuments in eighteenth-century China / Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng -- IV. Modernizing the past. Composite rubbings in nineteenth-century China: the case of Wu Dacheng (1835-1902) and his friends / Qianshen Bai -- Qing imperial collection, circa 1905-25: national humiliation, heritage preservation, and exhibition culture / Cheg-hua Wang -- Antiquarianism or primitivism?: the edge of history in the modern Chinese imagination / Sarah E. Fraser.