The Great Chinese Art Transfer : How So Much of China's Art Came to America.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 China -- 2 China's Tradition of Collecting -- 3 The Greatest Collection Ever -- 4 Foreigners in China's Curio and Antiquities Shops -- 5 American Pioneers in China -- 6 Tastemakers and Early Ceramics Collectors -- 7 International Dealers in Chinese Art -- 8 The Boston Orientalists and the Japanese Connection -- 9 Americans Who Began to Collect Chinese Porcelain -- 10 The Pace of American Collecting Increases -- 11 The Age of Giants Who Collected -- 12 The Great Public Collections of Chinese Art and Their Curators -- 13 Forgeries, Fakes, and the Repatriation of Art -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

This is the story of the great outflows of art from China into the collections and museums of the West. Western collectors and international dealers gathered paintings, ceramics, and other art objects from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, resulting in a reverse flow as Chinese collectors purchase back their treasures.

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