Pastimes : : From Art and Antiquarianism to Modern Chinese Historiography / / Shana J. Brown.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 5 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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