Product Details
Category - Non Fiction / History
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - A year ago
Views - 13
Wishes - 1
Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - Dec 1991
Seller Description
Essays on early modern (Ming dynasty) material culture in China. An analysis of status objects, connoisseurship, and Ming aesthetics. Craig Clunas explores the historical valuation of such items as huali and zitan furnitures that are esteemed by collectors of Chinese antiques today. See all photographs which include the table of contents for this book. Condition is like brand new except for very slight shelf wear to the dust jacket (no tears or markings).
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Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China
ISBN: 9780252019302
Publisher Description
Analyzes consumption patterns and attitudes towards consumption of material goods (particularly, paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade and other trappings) by the elites of Ming China...
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