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Author:

Clunas, Craig.

Title:

Superfluous things : material culture and social status in early modern China / Craig Clunas.

Edition:

Paperback ed.

Publisher:

University of Hawai'i Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xviii, 219 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Social classes--China--History--20th century.
Classes sociales--Chine--Histoire--17e siècle.
Culture matérielle--Chine--Histoire--17e siècle.
Chine--Histoire--1368-1644 (Dynastie des Ming)
Materiële cultuur.
Sociale status.
Geschichte 1368-1644.
Geschichte.
Mingdynastie.
Sachkultur.
Sozialstatus.
China.

Notes:

Originally published: Cambridge : Polity Press, 1991. With new pref. Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-209) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Books about things: the literature of Ming connoisseurship -- Ideas about things: themes in Ming connoisseurship literature -- Words about things: the language of Ming connoisseurship -- Things of the past: uses of the unique Ming material culture -- Things in motion: Ming history objects as commodities -- Anxieties about things: consumption and class in Ming China -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: Editors of Treatise on superfluous things -- Appendix II: Selected prices for works of art and antique artefacts c. 1560-1620.

ISBN:

9780824828202 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0824828208 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54073720

LCCN:

2004001199

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)