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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Meyer, Karl E. (Karl Ernest), 1937- author.     Subjects     Art, Chinese -- Appreciation -- United States.     Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Meyer, Karl E. (Karl Ernest), 1937- author.       by title:      The China collectors...         MARC Display

The China collectors : America's century-long hunt for Asian art treasures / Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac. by Meyer, Karl E. (Karl Ernest), 1937- author. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Subjects Art, Chinese -- Appreciation -- United States.   Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- History -- 19th century.   Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781137279767 1137279761 Description:  ix, 420 pages: illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Prologue. Our winding way to China -- 1. The rules of the game -- 2. Pacific overtures -- 3. The crimson path -- 4. Barrels of glue -- 5. Lament for Longmen -- 6. Penn corrals the Tang emperor's horses -- 7. Mad for Ming -- 8. Art on the rails -- 9. The porcelain bubble -- 10. Romancing the Rockefellers -- 11. The mandarin -- 12. Canada's tryst with China -- 13. Painting power -- 14. Threads of heaven -- 15. The authenticator -- 16. Streams and mountains : the view from the Middle West -- 17. The Met's marathon -- 18. Alien property -- 19. Going for the gold -- 20. The grand acquisitor -- Epilogue. Promising portals in the Great Wall. Requests:  0 Summary:  Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 709.51075 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 709.51075 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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