Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge
Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines a history of contact between modern Europe and East Asia through three collectors: Henri Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt. Drawing on a wealth of material including European travelogues of the East and Asian reports of the West,
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
A monumental social history of Peking over 500 years seen through the lens of the temple and with attention to and appreciation of the role religion played in the development of the imperial capital.