The China collectors : America's century-long hunt for Asian art treasures / Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.
Meyer, Karl E. (Karl Ernest), 1928- author.; Brysac, Shareen Blair, author.
2015
N7340 .M475 2015 (Mapit)
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Title The China collectors : America's century-long hunt for Asian art treasures / Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.
Author Meyer, Karl E. (Karl Ernest), 1928- author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9781137279767 hardcover
1137279761 hardcover
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Language English
Description ix, 420 pages: illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Call Number N7340 .M475 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 709.51/075
Summary Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Brysac, Shareen Blair, author.
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Prologue. Our winding way to China
1. The rules of the game
2. Pacific overtures
3. The crimson path
4. Barrels of glue
5. Lament for Longmen
6. Penn corrals the Tang emperor's horses
7. Mad for Ming
8. Art on the rails
9. The porcelain bubble
10. Romancing the Rockefellers
11. The mandarin
12. Canada's tryst with China
13. Painting power
14. Threads of heaven
15. The authenticator
16. Streams and mountains : the view from the Middle West
17. The Met's marathon
18. Alien property
19. Going for the gold
20. The grand acquisitor
Epilogue. Promising portals in the Great Wall.

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