Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize A Times Book of the Week When the British Museum opened its doors in 1759, it was the first

Collecting China is a unique collection of essays that brings together theories of materiality and what collecting has meant to various peoples over time. Colle

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