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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shin, K. Ian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]
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.