Craig Clunas is Percival David Chair of Chinese and East Asian Art in the Department of Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies.
List of Illustrations
vi
Acknowledgements
ix
Preface to the Paperback Edition
xi
Introduction
1
(7)
Books about things
The literature of Ming connoisseurship
8
(32)
Ideas about things
Themes in Ming connoisseurship literature
40
(35)
Words about things
The language of Ming connoisseurship
75
(16)
Things of the past
Uses of the antique in Ming material culture
91
(25)
Things in motion
Ming luxury objects as commodities
116
(25)
Anxieties about things
Consumption and class in Ming China
141
(25)
Conclusion
166
(8)
Appendix I Editors of Treatise on Superfluous Things
174
(3)
Appendix II Selected prices for works of art and antique artefacts c. 1560--1620
177
(5)
Notes
182
(15)
Bibliography of primary sources
197
(2)
Bibliography of secondary literature
199
(11)
Index
210
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