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Chinas renowned art objects, furnishings, and handicrafts have long been sought by collectors and inspired designers. Through 60 emblematically Chinese antiques and items, Things Chinese opens up the world of Chinese culture.

The history, cultural significance and customs surrounding these exemplars of Chinese art and material culture come into dazzling focus through detailed descriptions and full-color photographs. Items covered include:

  • Bamboo furniture
  • Ivory carving
  • Snuff bottles
  • Mooncake molds
  • Musical instruments
  • Mahjong sets
  • Fengshui compasses

Things Chinese brings together China scholar Ronald Knapp, who describes the history and use of these Chinese artifacts in fascinating detail, and Michael Freeman, whose work has appeared in magazines such as the Smithsonian, GEO and Conde Nast Traveler, and here lovingly and richly photographs each item of Chinese design. For lovers of Chinese style, Things Chinese is a treasure trove of riches.

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Acknowledgments

All photographs are by Michael Freeman unless otherwise noted. The following are the sources for some of the objects shown in Michael Freemans photographs:

Gregg Baker
140-142 Kensington Church Street
London W8 4BN, England
+44 (0) 20 7221 3533
www.japanesescreens.com/

Elisabeth de Brabant
299 Fuxing West Rd,
Xuhui
Shanghai, China
+86 2164667428
www.elisabethdebrabant.com

Henry Brownrigg
Stands 2&21, 287
Westbourne Grove
London W11 2QA, England
+44 (0) 7381 5407
hcqbrownrigg@hotmail.com

Robert Hall
+44 (0) 207624 9300
www.snuffbottle.com

Hong Merchant of Shanghai
N3 Lane 372 Xing Guo Lu
Shanghai 200052, China
+86 2162832696
jpweber@uninet.cn
an-cecil@online.sh.cn

Judy Lee Chinese Antiques & Collectibles
Red Lion Arcade
Portobello Road
London, England
+44 (7) 988591018
judy@judyleeantiques.com
judylee9009@hotmail.com

Little River Asian Art
Shop 5
58-60 Kensington Church Street
London W8 4DB, England
+44 (0) 73499080
www.littleriver-asianart.co.uk

Laurence Paul
Fleurdelys Antiquites
at Patrick Sandberg Antiques
150-152 Kensington Church Street
London W8 4BN, England
+44 (0) 20 7258 1144; +44 (0) 7798 600437

Shanghai Yuyuan Culture Promoting & Publicizing Co. Ltd.

+86 2163200836
www.culture-sh.com
Yywhcb@163.com

Shikumen Wulixiang
25, Lane 181
Taicang Road (Xintiandi)
Luwan District
Shanghai, China
+86 2133070337
openhouse@shuion.com.cn

Thanks also to: Ghislaine Bouillet-Cordonnier, Yomei Chang, Lina and Talal Kanafani, Constantine Koutzaroff, Mimi Lipton

Additional Photo Credits

The following photographs are courtesy of or from:

(Note: Page numbers correspond to the print edition.)

74 (top left); 117 (bottom): U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

74 (top right): Edwin Reischauer and John King Fairbank. East Asia: The Great Traditions . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

74 (bottom left): Mrs. Archibald Little. Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them . London: Hutchinson & Co., 1899.

76: Harvard College Library, Widener Library olvwork 394100.

111 (bottom left), 133: Patricia Bjaaland Welch, from Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery . Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, 2008.

112: Bin Zhou / Dreamstime.com

119 (top); 120 (bottom left): Samuel Victor Constant. Calls Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddler . Peking: Camel Bell, 1936.

127 (top left, bottom): Ronald G. Knapp.

134: Sun Jianai, ed. Qinding Shujing tushuo [ Imperially Prescribed Illustrated Classic of History ]. Beijing: Daxuetang, 1905. juan

Bibliography Aero Rita Things Chinese Garden City NY Dolphin Books - photo 1

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