Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China
Design IssuesPublished 1 January 1995
Jonathan Spence, Craig Clunas
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Abstract
Books about things - the literature of Ming connoisseurship ideas about things - themes in Ming connoisseurship words about things - the language of Ming connoisseurship things of the past - uses of the antique in Ming material culture things in motion - Ming luxury objects as commodities anxieties about things - consumption andclass in Ming China. Appendix: Selected prices for works of art and antique artifacts c1560-1620.
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Social Sciences