Imperial stewards : Chinese art and the making of America's Pacific century /
"From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest and most sophisticated collections of Chinese art. Imperial Stewards argues that, beyond aes...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Asian America.
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Table of Contents:
- "Working in the Dark": Chinese porcelains and the Gilded Age roots of US imperial stewardship
- "Chinese Art of the Right Kind": From collecting to stewardship in the new century
- Imperializing US stewardship: The China Monuments Society and the Asiatic Institute, 1908-1915
- "A Wonder of Another Breed": Chinese exempt classes and the limits of US imperial stewardship
- "We Must Be Resigned to America Getting All the Fine Things": US imperial stewardship in an age of global war
- "Art Knows Neither Frontiers Nor Irregular Verbs": Consolidating US imperial stewardship before World War II.