Social Lives of Chinese Objects

Acknowledgments


List of Figures, Chart and Tables


Notes on Contributors





Introduction


?Alice Bianchi and Lyce Jankowski





Part 1: Reconsidering Object Categories


1 The Afterlife of Mingqi: Relational Meaning in Underground Tombs


?Bonnie Cheng





2 From Ritual to Colonial Fantasies. Chinese Ritual Objects as Part of Western Collections of Asian Art in the First Half of the Twentieth Century


?Michaela Pejcochova





3 Contemporary Art and Colonial Collecting: Huang Yong Ping's Reinstallation of J.J.M. de Groot's Pantheon Chinois from the Lyon Musee des Confluences


?Francesca Dal Lago





Part 2: Questioning the Narratives of Objects Biographies


4 Materiality as Objecthood in a Buddhist Clay Tablet: From Calligraphic Style to an Imaginary Encounter with Dunhuang


?Foong Ping





5 Chinese Zodiac: The Social Life of the Yuanming Yuan's Circle of Animals Fountain Heads


?Ines Eben von Racknitz





Part 3: Opening New Perspectives


6 Reevaluating Chinese Landscape Iconography: Painting and Poetry of Meditation during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries


?Cedric Laurent





7 A World Dotted with Kingfisher Blue: Feather Tributes and the Qing Court


?Wang Lianming





8 Portraits on China: Porcelain Portraits and Photoceramics from China in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries


?Lee Wing Ki





Bibliography


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