This volume explores the collecting and display of objects from the art collection of China’s eighteenth century Yuanmingyuan - or "Summer Palace" - in Western museums.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2017-10-23
Language: English
Number of Pages: 186
Edition: 1
Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..