Publications

Photography in China: Science, Commerce and Communication (by Oliver Moore)

Title: Photography in China: Science, Commerce and Communication Author: Oliver Moore Published by: Routledge, 2021   Emphasizing the medium’s reception among several Chinese constituencies, this book explores photography’s impact within…

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British Collecting of Ceramics for Tea Gatherings from Meiji Japan: British Museum and Maidstone Museum Collections (PhD thesis by Ai Fukunaga)

Title: British Collecting of Ceramics for Tea Gatherings from Meiji Japan: British Museum and Maidstone Museum Collections (PhD thesis) Author: Ai Fukunaga Available through SOAS Research Online - A Free…

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Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art: The World, Two Metres Away – Arts and Culture during the Pandemic

Title: The World, Two Metres Away: Arts and Culture during the Pandemic Published by: Intellect Books, 2021 Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art Volume 8, Numbers 2-3   The Journal of…

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Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan: The Archaeology of Things in the Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Periods (by Hiroyuki Suzuki; edited and translated by Maki Fukuoka)

Title: Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan: The Archaeology of Things in the Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Periods Author: Hiroyuki Suzuki Edited and translated by: Maki Fukuoka Published by: Getty Publications,…

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Breaking the Ink: Abstract Ink art in Mainland China (by Daniela Zhang Cziráková)

Title: Breaking the Ink: Abstract Ink art in Mainland China Author: Daniela Zhang Cziráková Published by: Veda, 2020 Breaking the Ink – Abstract Ink art in Mainland China offers insight…

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Asian Studies Special Issue: East Asia in Slovenia – Collecting Practices, Categorization and Representation

Title: East Asia in Slovenia: Collecting Practices, Categorization and Representation Special Issue Editor: Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik Published by: Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana Asian Studies Volume…

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Picturing the Floating World: Ukiyo-e in Context (by Julie Nelson Davis)

Title: Picturing the Floating World: Ukiyo-e in Context Author: Julie Nelson Davis Published by: University of Hawaii Press, 2021 Today we think of ukiyo-e—“the pictures of the floating world”—as masterpieces…

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Reading Objects in the Contact Zone (Edited by Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Kerstin Schankweiler and Anna Sophia Messner)

Title: Reading Objects in the Contact Zone (Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality) Edited by: Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Kerstin Schankweiler and Anna Sophia Messner Published by: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021 The cultural effects…

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Collecting China: Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807), collections and Chinese studies (by Jan van Campen)

Title: Collecting China: Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807), collections and Chinese studies Author: Jan van Campen Published by: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2021 During a relatively short period, from around 1765 to 1780,…

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Pots, Prints, and Politics: Ceramics with an Agenda, from the 14th to the 20th Century (Edited by Patricia Ferguson)

Title: Pots, Prints, and Politics: Ceramics with an Agenda, from the 14th to the 20th Century Edited by: Patricia Ferguson Published by: The British Museum Press, 2021 In this lavishly…

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The Silk Road, Vol. 18 (Edited by Justin M. Jacobs)

Title: The Silk Road, Vol. 18 Edited by: Justin M. Jacobs Published by: The Silk Road House (open-access journal), 2020 Table of Contents: Kashgar: Lost in the Mists of Time—A…

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Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives (Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Ping Yao and Cong Ellen Zhang)

Full Title: Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives Edited by: Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Ping Yao and Cong Ellen Zhang Published by: University of Washington Press, 2019 Tens of…

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