Superfluous Things : : Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China /

Superfluous Things : : Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China / / Craig Clunas.

Now in paperbackThis 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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Clunas, Craig,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]
©1991
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • Introduction
  • 1 Books about things: The literature of Ming connoisseurship
  • 2 Ideas about things: Themes in Ming connoisseurship literature
  • 3 Words about things: The language of Ming connoisseurship
  • 4 Things of the past: Uses of the antique in Ming material culture
  • 5 Things in motion: Ming luxury objects as commodities
  • 6 Anxieties about things: Consumption and class in Ming China
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I Editors of Treatise on Superfluous Things
  • Appendix II Selected prices for works of art and antique artefacts c. 1560-1620
  • Notes
  • Bibliography of primary sources
  • Bibliography of secondary literature
  • Index

Similar Items