Pastimes: From Art and Antiquarianism to Modern Chinese Historiography 9780824860097
Pastimes is the first book in English on Chinese jinshi, or antiquarianism, the pinnacle of traditional connoisseurship
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English Pages 230 Year 2011
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Antiquarianism and Its Genealogies
2. Antiquarianism in an Age of Reform
3. A Passion for Antiquity, in Two Dimensions and in Three
4. Wu Dacheng’s Paleography and Artifact Studies
5. The Discovery of the Oracle Bone Inscriptions
6. Luo Zhenyu and the Dilemmas of the Private Scholar
7. Wang Guowei–From Antiquarianism to History
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
