Superfluous things : material culture and social status in early modern China
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Superfluous things : material culture and social status in early modern China
University of Hawai'i Press, 2004
- : pbk
Available at 11 libraries
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Originally published: Cambridge : Polity Press, 1991
"Paperback edition published 2004 by University of Hawai'i Press"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. [197]-209
Includes index
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Description
This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes ""superfluous things"" - the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China - and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.
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