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Superfluous Things : Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China, Paperback / softback Book

Superfluous Things : Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China Paperback / softback

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This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China.

Craig Clunas analyzes ""superfluous things"" - the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China - and describes contemporary attitudes to them.

He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.

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