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

During a relatively short period, from around 1765 to 1780, the Dutch lawyer Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807) was intensely engaged in the study of Chinese cultu

In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperi

This work chronicles the history of China for over four hundred years through the spring of 1989.