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Making "Chinese Art": Knowledge and ...

Shin, Kin-Yee Ian.

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Making "Chinese Art": Knowledge and Authority in the Transpacific Progressive Era.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Making "Chinese Art": Knowledge and Authority in the Transpacific Progressive Era./
作者:	Shin, Kin-Yee Ian.
面頁冊數:	339 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-11A(E).
標題:	American history. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10138201
ISBN:	9781339938127

Making "Chinese Art": Knowledge and Authority in the Transpacific Progressive Era.
Shin, Kin-Yee Ian.

Making "Chinese Art": Knowledge and Authority in the Transpacific Progressive Era. - 339 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2016.

This dissertation presents a cultural history of U.S.-China relations between 1876 and 1930 that analyzes the politics attending the formation of the category we call "Chinese art" in the United States today. Interest in the material and visual culture of China has influenced the development of American national identity and shaped perceptions of America's place in the world since the colonial era. Turn-of-the-century anxieties about U.S.-China relations and geopolitics in the Pacific Ocean sparked new approaches to the collecting and study of Chinese art in the U.S. Proponents including Charles Freer, Langdon Warner, Frederick McCormick, and others championed the production of knowledge about Chinese art in the U.S. as a deterrent for a looming "civilizational clash." Central to this flurry of activity were questions of epistemology and authority: among these approaches, whose conceptions and interpretations would prevail, and on what grounds?

ISBN: 9781339938127Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.

Making "Chinese Art": Knowledge and Authority in the Transpacific Progressive Era.
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520 $a American collectors, dealers, and curators grappled with these questions by engaging not only with each other---oftentimes contentiously---but also with their counterparts in Europe, China, and Japan. Together they developed and debated transnational forms of expertise within museums, world's fairs, commercial galleries, print publications, and educational institutes. The collaboration and competition between them based on evolving definitions of rigor and objectivity produced two significant results. First, the creation of knowledge about Chinese art advanced informal imperialism over China through a more disciplined apprehension of its culture. Second, it facilitated the U.S. overtaking Europe as the new center for the collecting and study of Chinese art in the West. This project thus explains not only the evolution of a field of knowledge, but also the transformation of the United States into an international power at the intersection of geopolitics and culture in the first decades of the early twentieth century.
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