Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : merchant culture in the material world of eighteenth-century China
  • Courting the court
  • Furnishing the court
  • Collecting as a "collector"
  • Luxury and lineage
  • Materializing morality
  • Conclusion : cultured and cosmopolitan men (tongren) : objects, merchants, and the Manchu court in High Qing China.