...Craig Clunas BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 823 the space to take context into consideration (pp. 7-8), or to assert self-defensively that he has relied on the writings of Qing dynasty critics in order to map out the "canonical" opposition to his "decadent" poetics because they "represent the most mature...

...Craig Clunas 830 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The highlight of this book is nevertheless the glimmer of hope accompanying the political democratization in the 1980s: the mounting pressure towards the establishment of an institutional and universal welfare system driven by rampant social movements...

...Stanley Murashige Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470–1559 . By Craig Clunas . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . 223 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 713 Two other excellent...

...Richard G. Wang Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China . By Craig Clunas . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . 248 pp. $57.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 This brief review can address only a few of Clunas's many...

...Joanna F. Handlin Smith Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China . By Craig Clunas . Cambridge, England : Polity Press , 1991 . x, 218 pp. $39.95. Distributed by the University of Illinois Press. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Julia K. Murray Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368–1644 . By Craig Clunas . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2007 . 288 pp. $59.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In this vigorously...

...Judy Chungwa Ho Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China . By Craig Clunas . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 1996 . xiii, 240 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 183 cover-up...

...Jun Hu 1 See also Craig Clunas, Art in China , 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 9–13. Therefore, central to Clunas's narrative is the constant tension in the formation of an essentialism to cast “Chinese painting” as a cultural idiom, in spite of and at times...

... on the art of acting were collected in a volume entitled Chongding xinshang pian (Recompiled texts on connoisseurship), published between 1600 and 1640 (Clunas 1991, 36). In this essay, I discuss the social significance of the connoisseurship of the actor, examining the exchange of actors and poems among...

...: Material Culture andSocialStatus in Early Modern China. By CRAIG CLUNAS. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 1991- x, 218 pp. $39-95. Distributed by the University of Illinois Press. Superfluous Things is one of those rare books whose every chapter makes you think, often about features of Chinese society...

... inadequately answered. Even so, Clunas seems to assume a picture of how society was stratified when he speaks unhesitatingly of "social emulation" and "the extension of forms of consumption from the bureaucratic elite to the merely rich" (p. 163)- To document the downward "extension" of taste, he discusses...

.... By C R A I G CLUNAS. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. 240 pp. $49-95 (cloth); $19-95 (paper). Resisting a history or essentialist definition of the paradigmatic Chinese garden, Craig Clunas's book, Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China, offers an account of how gardens were...

...Hanchao Lu Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550–1850 . By Antonia Finnane . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2004 . xix , 453 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 715 Clunas s study...

... that underlie the making of art and material culture in traditional China. 1. Previous honorees include Lothar Ledderose and Craig Clunas, both of whom adopted overarching concepts and an expansive breadth of historical time to frame their lectures and resulting publications: Lothar Ledderose, Ten...

... of Wen Zhengming, 1470 1559. By CRAIG CLUNAS. Honolulu: University of Hawai i Press, 2004. 223 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Craig Clunas s thorough and rigorous study illuminates the rich fabric of social relations that constitutes the life and work of Wen Zhengming (1470 1559), best ...

... specializing in early modern China have shown a bourgeoning interest in the wider spectrum of social and cultural history. Field-shaping works by Craig Clunas, Timothy Brook, and John Meskill, which focus mostly on the discussion of luxury goods and elegant lifestyles, have aptly shown how the desire...

... Xingjian, Wang Shuo, and Chu T'ien-wen. Craig Clunas has extended recent inquiry on visuality into Chinese studies. Rojas continues this project, using a modified Freudian-Lacanian approach and yet arguing that he avoids the implied universalism of the psychoanalytic model by “rehistoricizing” it. He...

... In the field of Chinese art history, James Cahill is without doubt a national treasure. As Craig Clunas reminded us in his “Afterward” to Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming [Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2004, p. 180], there was a time when Professor Cahill defended the amateur approach...

... of “how to” painting manuals takes as its basic inquiry a question formulated by Craig Clunas in his magisterial book on early modern visuality in China ( Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China [Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997]): what was the social calculus informing picture-making...

... demonstrates, the book is actually strongest when it sets aside pursuit of the “Sick Man” project. Recently, scholars such as Craig Clunas and Vivienne Lo have begun to focus on different regimes of visuality in late imperial China. Heinrich's work brings these concerns to the post–Opium War world. After...