Collecting antiquity in modern China : artifacts and their afterlives /

"A look at twentieth-century Chinese writers and intellectuals who used the material remains of the past to unsettle the present. In this book, Guangchen Chen argues that discerning collectors used antiquities to upend dominant discourses on history and cultural memory in twentieth-century Chin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Guangchen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2026.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Carving
  • Rubbing
  • Brushing
  • Weaving
  • Epilogue : who owns China's past?