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Pastimes : from art and antiquarianism to modern Chinese historiography /

Pastimes is the first book in English on Chinese jinshi, or antiquarianism, the pinnacle of traditional connoisseurship of ancient artifacts and inscriptions. As a scholarly field, jinshi was inaugurated in the Northern Song (960-1127) and remained popular until the early twentieth century. Literall...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, Shana Julia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2011.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Antiquarianism and its genealogies
  • Antiquarianism in an age of reform
  • A passion for antiquity, in two dimensions and in three
  • Wu Dacheng's paleography and artifact studies
  • The discovery of the oracle bone inscriptions
  • Luo Zhenyu and the dilemmas of the private scholar
  • Wang Guowei, from antiquarianism to history.