This ground-breaking, beautifully illustrated publication is the outcome of the conference 'Ming: Courts and Contacts 1400-1450' that accompanied the British Museum's major exhibition Ming: 50 years that changed China (September 2014 ...
Ming China Courts and Contacts 1400-1450
September 2016
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This is also a period when contacts of unprecedented scale took place between the Ming empire and the wider world, particularly between courts, through embassies, an aggressive military forward policy and court-sponsored maritime ...
Precious Stones and Ming Culture, 1400-1450
September 2016
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Ming China Courts and Contacts 1400-1450
This ground-breaking, beautifully illustrated publication is the outcome of the conference 'Ming: Courts and Contacts 1400-1450' that accompanied the British Museum's major exhibition Ming: 50 years that changed China (September 2014 ...
Reading a painter's price list in Republican Shanghai
September 2016
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Journal article
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Source: Notes in the History of Art
Reading a Painter’s Price List in Republican Shanghai
February 2016
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Source Notes in the History of Art
3601 Art History, Theory and Criticism, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Connected Material Histories: A response
January 2016
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Modern Asian Studies
In giving the very first lecture that first year History of Art undergraduates at Oxford will hear, I have usually employed the practice of giving them a sheet of paper with nothing on it but the outlines of the landmasses of the globe, and asking them to draw a line round ‘the West’. The idea was inspired by a reading of Lewis and Wigen’s 1997 book The Myth of Continents (‘justly celebrated’, as Sanjay Subrahmanyam says), and remains a useful pedagogic act up to a point, for the reasons so clearly laid out in that book; also, it breaks the ice, it gets a buzz of conversation going in the room, it certainly foregrounds the topic, central now to art historical enquiry, of the way in which ‘representations are social facts’. But the reason I do not ask them to draw a map round ‘the East’ is I suspect that it would be too easy, or at least done too quickly, and indeed the boundaries of both ‘East’ and ‘Orient’, as ‘Europe’s Other’, can be shown to have fluctuated much less than have the boundaries of what for most Oxford students is still, if somewhat tenuously, ‘us’ or ‘here’. Wherever ‘the East’ is, it all lies (as Subrahmanyam points out in his essay) in that assuredly etic part of the world called Asia. I might, in the privacy of my own hard drive, choose to categorise those European images which I need for teaching as ‘Non-Eastern’ (to balance the ‘Non-Western’ rubric on which my specialist options appear in the syllabus). But that is not a category widely used, or at least not in my own discipline of art history.
URSULA TOYKA: The Splendours of Paradise: Murals and Epigraphic Documents of the Early Ming Buddhist Monastery Fahai Si. (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series LXIII.) 2 vols, 577 pp., 578–990 pp. Sankt Augustin: Institut Mo...
June 2015
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
4404 Development Studies, 44 Human Society, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Ming 50 Years That Changed China
September 2014
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Book
The engaging narrative is richly illustrated with over 250 images, drawing on the objects specially selected for the British Museum's major exhibition. Some of these are the finest pieces ever made in China.
Art, Chinese
Going Shopping with ‘The Old Chinese’ in Early Ming Beijing
September 2014
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Journal article
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Orientations
Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China
July 2013
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Book
Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy - relatives of the emperors - in Ming dynasty China (1368 - 1644). Through an analysis of their patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through a study of the contents of their splendid and recently-excavated tombs, this innovative study puts the aristocracy back at the heart of accounts of China's culture, from which they have been excluded until very recently. Screen of Kings challenges much of the received wisdom about Ming China. Craig Clunas sheds new light on many familiar artworks, as well as work that have never before been reproduced. New archaeological discoveries have furnished the author with evidence of the lavish and spectacular lifestyles of these provincial princes and demonstrate how central the imperial family was to the high culture of the Ming era. Written by the leading specialist in the art and culture of the Ming period, this book will illuminate a key aspect of China's past, and will significantly alter our understanding of the Ming. It will be enjoyed by anyone with a serious interest in the history and art of this great civilization.
Fruitful Sites Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China
June 2013
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Book
As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1369–1644) firmly in the social and cultural history of ...
History
Jerome Silbergeld, Dora C.Y. Ching, Judith G. Smith and Alfreda Murck (eds): Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong. (2 volumes.) xvi, 935 pp. Princeton, NJ: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang C...
February 2013
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Journal article
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
3601 Art History, Theory and Criticism, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
The art of global comparisons
January 2013
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Chapter
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Writing the History of the Global
<p>This chapter considers comparison made hitherto between Western and Chinese art. Mieke Bal has argued that comparison becomes a ground for relative judgement; it establishes hierarchies and distracts from looking. The chapter considers attitudes to Chinese art before and after the Second World War. Chinese art was part of the syllabus before and after that war, and was excluded thereafter. It was relegated to the marginal place of the exotic arts. Mieke Bal has argued that comparison should not be an instrument of judgement, but a source of differentiation.</p>
Regarding art and art history
January 2013
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Journal article
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Art Bulletin
The Family Style: Art as Lineage in the Ming and Qing
January 2013
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Chapter
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The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture
Things in Between: Splendour and Excess in Ming China
February 2012
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption
Business & Economics
PASTIMES: From Art and Antiquarianism to Modern Chinese Historiography.
January 2012
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Journal article
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PACIFIC AFFAIRS
Antiquarian Politics and the Politics of Antiquarianism in Ming Regional Courts
January 2010
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Chapter
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Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture
Art and history
Reading Wen Zhengming: Metaphor and Chinese painting
January 2009
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Journal article
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Word Image
Commodity and Context: Wen Zhenming in the Late Ming Art Market
January 2008
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Chapter
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The history of painting in East Asia
Painting, Chinese
Empire of Great Brightness Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644
January 2007
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Book
Empire of Great Brightness is an innovative and accessible history of a high point in Chinese culture, seen through the riches of its images and objects.
Art
Foreword
January 2007
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Book
Is Art History Global
December 2006
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Chapter
3601 Art History, Theory and Criticism, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
'Not One Hair Different...' Wen Zhengming on Imaging the Dead in Ming Funerary Portraiture
March 2006
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Presence: the Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects
Elegant Debts The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470-1559
January 2004
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Book
Elegant Debts uses an unprecedented quantity of primary sources for the writer and painter Wen Zhengming's life and work.
Art
Art in China
January 1997
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Book
'Chinese art' is quite a recent invention, not much more than a hundred years old.
Although the textiles, pieces of calligraphy, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and
other works of art shown in this book date from a period of 5,000 years, the idea ...
Art
Chinese Carving
January 1996
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Book
"Presented here is a wide-ranging history of Chinese carving, from the Shang period to today.
Art
Superfluous Things Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China
January 1991
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Book
This was done crudely by using as a framework the number of times a particular
quality is used in the 'Vessels and utensils' chapter of the Treatise on Superfluous
Things. Any one of these terms merits a much more refined, subtle and ...
History
Chinese export art and design
January 1987
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Book
This book examines the production of luxury goods for export to European, and later to American markets by the highly developed Chinese craft market in the period following the arrival of the first Portuguese in 1514.