The China collectors : America's century-long hunt for Asian art treasures / Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.

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 treas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Meyer, Karl E. (Karl Ernest), 1928-2019
Brysac, Shareen Blair (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan Trade, ©2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Art, Chinese > Appreciation > United States.
Art > Collectors and collecting > United States > History > 19th century.
Art > Collectors and collecting > United States > History > 20th century.
ART / Asian.
ART / Art & Politics.
ART / History / General.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:ix, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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