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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLICATIONS BY
CRAIG CLUNAS, 1978-2007
1978
'Mongol Life in the 1930s; a Chinese View', Journal of the Anglo-Mongolian Society, 4/1 (July,
1978), 17-36.
Review of Lawrence Kessler, K'ang-Hsi and the Consolidation of Ch'ing Rule 1661 - 1684 in JRAS.
1980
'Population Decline in Inner Mongolia under the Chinese Republic', JAMS, 6/1 (April, 1980), 22-41.
'The Prefaces to Nigen Dabqur Asar and their Chinese Antecedents', Zentralasiatische Studien, 14.1
(1980), 139-194.
Review of Hsiao, The Military Establishment of the Yuan Dynasty in BSOAS, 43 (1980), 162-163
1981
'The Tümed and the Physical World of Injanasi (1837 - 1892)', JAMS, 7/1 (December, 1981), 73-84.
(Translator) Wang Shixiang, 'Moulded Gourds' in Gugong Bowuyuan yuankan 1979.1 The Oriental
Ceramic Society Chinese Translations Number Ten (London, 1981), 16-30.
Review of Klaus-Peter Tietze, Ssuch'uan vom 7. bis 10. Jahrhundert in BSOAS, 44 (1981), 615.
1982
'The West Chamber; a Literary Theme in Chinese Porcelain Decoration', Transactions of the
Oriental Ceramic Society 46 (1981 - 82), 69-86.
'An Inner Mongolian manuscript of Erdeni-yin tobci', ZAS 16, (1982), 149-152.
'The explorer's tracks', Times, April 14th 1982.
Review of Ho Ming Weng, Straits Chinese Porcelain, A Collector's Guide in The Straits Times.
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Review of Madeleine Jarry, Chinoiserie, Chinese Influences on European Decorative Arts, 17th and
18th Centuries in Art Book Review.
Review of John D Langlois ed., China under Mongol Rule in JRAS (1982), 223-224
1983
'A Chinese bed for a European trader', Arts of Asia, 13.6 (November/December 1983), 126-129.
'Lacquerwork' in Encyclopaedia Americana (1983).
'The Visit of Wang Shixiang', Bulletin of the British Association for Chinese Studies (1983), 39-40.
'Sir John Addis', BBACS (1983), 42-43.
Review of C J A Jorg, Porcelain and the Dutch China Trade in Art Book Review.
1984
Chinese Export Watercolours, V & A Far Eastern Series (London, 1984).
Reviews: Burlington Magazine 128 (April 1986)
School Librarian 32 (September 1984)
Orientations (July 1984)
Birmingham Post 24.2.1990
'Ming and Qing ivories: useful and ornamental pieces' in Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing,
edited by William Watson, Oriental Ceramic Society / British Museum (London, 1984), 118-195.
'Moulding a physiognomy - a Chinese portrait figure', V & A Album 3 (1984), 46-51.
'Korea' and 'The Ryukyu Islands' in Lacquer. An International History and Collector's Guide
(London, 1984), 62-69 and 136-141.
'Chinese Ivories at the British Museum', Apollo 120 (August, 1984), 141-142.
'Et kinesisk eksportchatol', Carlsbergfondet/Frederiksborgmuseet/Ny Carlsbergfondet Arsskrift
1984, 88-94.
Review of Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin, Cultural Atlas of China in JRAS (1984), 311-312.
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Review of Jerome Silbergeld, Chinese Painting Style in BSOAS, 47 (1984), 583 - 584
1985
'The taste for Japanese lacquer in the late Ming; the textual evidence', Far Eastern Department
Working Day on the Late Ming (privately circulated), 1985.
'The Chinese chair and the Danish Designer', V & A Album 4 (1985), 314-318.
'Robert M. Somers (1942-1983): a personal memoir', BBACS (1985), 30.
Review of Zhongya xuekan/Journal of Central Asia in BSOAS.
'Byron at Aberdeen', Letter in TLS no 4285 (1985), p.549
1986
'Human Figures in the Decoration of Ming Lacquer', Oriental Art N.S. 32 (1986), 177-188.
'Jade Carvers and their Customers in Ming China', TOCS, 50 (1985-1986), 69-85.
'Object of the Month: Song Dynasty Jade Brush Washer', Orientations, 17.10 (October, 1986), 3234.
'Report on a Research Trip to China', BBACS (1986), 80-82.
Contributor to Japanese Art and Design: the Toshiba Gallery, edited by J V Earle.
Review of Zhu Jiajin, Treasures of the Forbidden City, in World of Interiors.
Review of Once upon a time in World of Interiors.
1987
Chinese Export Art and Design, (Editor and contributor), Victoria and Albert Museum (London,
1987).
Reviews:
Bulletin of the China Institute in America, Spring 1988
Birmingham Post 24.2.1990
Art History
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'What is Chinese Furniture? The Changing Western Image of Chinese Furniture', Orientations, 18.3
(March, 1987), 20-29.
'Some Literary Evidence for Gold and Silver Vessels in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)', in Pots and
Pans; a Colloquium on Precious Metals and Ceramics, edited by Michael Vickers and Julian Raby,
Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 3 (1987), 83-87.
'Design and Cultural Frontiers: English Shapes and Chinese Furniture Workshops 1700-1790,
Apollo, 126 (October, 1987), 256-263.
'The Apollo Portrait: Wang Shixiang', Apollo, 127 (November, 1987), 350-351.
'Chinese Export Art and Design at the V & A', Britain-China. Newsletter of the Great Britain-China
Centre, 35 (Summer, 1987), 10.11.
Review of Bush and Shih, Early Chinese Texts on Painting in BSOAS.
Review of Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, edited by Johnson, Nathan and Rawski in
BSOAS, 50 (1987), 587-588.
Review of Hok-lam Chan, Legitimation in Imperial China in BSOAS, 50 (1987), 409-410.
1988
'Books and Things: Ming Literary Culture and Material Culture', in Frances Wood ed., Chinese
Studies, British Library Occasional Papers 10 (London, 1988), pp.136-43.
'High Craft or Tourist Art? Chinese lacquer in the 20th century', The V & A Album, Autumn, (1988),
13-18.
Review of Le Yuanmingyuan; jeux d'eau et palais Europeens du XVIIIeme siecle a la cour de Chine
in Arts asiatiques, 43 (1988), 181.
Review of Widmer, The Margins of Utopia, in JRAS.
Review of Art from the Scholar's Studio, in BSOAS.
Review of Croizier, Art and Revolution: the Lingnan (Cantonese) School of Painting 1906-1951, in
Asian Affairs.
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1989
Chinese Furniture, Victoria and Albert Museum Far Eastern Series/Bamboo Publishing (London,
1989).
Reviews:
Antiques Trade Gazette 26.8.89
Arts of Asia, August - September 1989
Newsletter of the Great Britain-China Centre, Spring 1989
The Antique Collector
Artention (Hong Kong)
Oriental Art 35.3
Orientations, October 1989
Woodworking International December 89/January 90
Apollo, 131 (March, 1990)
Antiek April 1990
South China Morning Post 14.10.1990
Furniture History Society Newsletter 101 (1991)
'Chinese Art and Chinese Artists in France, 1924-1925', Arts Asiatiques, 44 (1989), 100 - 106
Republished:
'Jade Carvers and their Customers in Ming China', in The Bulletin of the Friends of Jade, 6 (1989),
33 – 52, originally in TOCS, 50 (1985-1986), 69-85.
1990
'Faking in East Asia' (plus catalogue entries) in Mark Jones ed., Fake ?: the Art of Deception ,
British Museum Publications (London, 1990)
'The Informed Eye: An Authentic Fake Chinese Painting', Apollo, 131 (March, 1990), 177 - 178
'Decadent Designs', The Independent Magazine, 3rd November 1990, 61 - 65
Review of Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy Spanning Two Thousand Years in Apollo, 132
(August, 1990), 138 - 139
1991
Superfluous Things: Social Status and Material Culture in Early Modern China (Cambridge, 1991)
[American edn, Illinois University Press, Urbana and Chicago]
Reviews:
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New Statesman & Society, 3 January 1992
Hampstead and Highgate Express, 21 February 1992
Times Higher Educational Supplement, 27 March 1992
Britain-China, Winter 91-92
Arts asiatiques, 47 (1992), 145-6
Journal of Asian Studies, 51.4 (1992), 885-7
American Historical Review, 98 (1993), 215-6
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Far Eastern Economic Review, 17 June 1993
Literature and History, Third series (1993), 135-6
Discourse and Society, 4(4) (1993), 475-6
Opossum: tijdschrift voor historische en kunstwetenschapen, 4 (1994), 91-93
Revue bibliographique de sinologie 1993-4, 217-9
Orientations 1995.2, 67-8
Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 4.1 (Spring 1995): 73-81
Design Issues, 11.1 (1995), 83-4
Social History, 18.3 (1993), 393-5
China Quarterly 136 (December 1993), 1019
(with Rose Kerr and Verity Wilson), Chinese Art and Design: the T.T. Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art,
edited by Rose Kerr, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 1991)
Reviews:
Art History
Annals of the "Serghiu Al-George" Institute, 1 (1992), 84-5.
'Lost Interiors; Woodblock Prints and the Evidence for Chinese Furniture', Orientations, 22.1
(January 1991), 81-88
'The Art of Social Climbing in the Ming Dynasty', V&A/Arts Club Lecture, The Burlington
Magazine, 133, no 1059 (1991), 368-377
'Whose Throne is it Anyway ? The Qianlong Throne in the T.T. Tsui Gallery', Orientations, 22.7
(July, 1991), 44-50
'The Chinese View', in Roger Malbert ed., Exotic Europeans, A South Bank Centre Exhibition
(London, 1991), 70-71
'The Cost of Ceramics and the Cost of Collecting Ceramics in the Ming Dynasty', Bulletin of the
Hong Kong Oriental Ceramic Society, 8 (1986-8), 47-53
'Ideal and Reality in the Ming Garden', in L. Tjon Sie Fat and E. de Jong eds, The Authentic Garden:
A Symposium on Gardens (Leiden, 1991), 197-25
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'The Art of Patronage: Four Makers of the V&A Chinese Collections', Artention
'The T.T.Tsui Gallery', Cook's Traveller, no 8 (Summer, 1991), 26-27
Review of Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture in Orientations, 22.1 (January
1991), 89-90
Review of Fang and Barnhart, The Master of the Lotus Garden in The Art Newspaper, May 1991
Review of Arthur F. Wright, Studies in Chinese Buddhism in JRAS, 3rd Series, 1.2 (1991): 327-8.
1992
'The Novel Jin Ping Mei as a Source for the Study of Ming Furniture', Orientations, 23.1 (1992), 6068.
'Jade Tableware of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)’, in Procedings of the International Colloquium
on Chinese Art History, 1991: Antiquities, 2 vols, National Palace Museum, Taipei (Taipei, 1992),
pp.727-740.
'Connoisseurs and aficionados: the real and the fake in Ming China (1368-1644)', in Mark Jones ed.,
Why Fakes Matter: Essays on Problems of Authenticity, (London, 1992), pp. 151-6.
'Chinese Furniture and Western Designers', in Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society,
3.1 (Winter, 1992), 58-69.
Review of Shing Yiu Yip and Grace Wu Bruce, Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and the Romance with
Huanghuali Wood: The Dr S.Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, in Orientations, 23.1
(1992), 97.
1993
'The Regulation of Consumption and The Institution of Correct Morality by the Ming State', in
Chun-chieh Huang and Erik Zurcher eds., Norms and the State in China, Sinica Leidensia 28
(Leiden, 1993), 39-49.
Review of Rolf A. Stein, The World in Miniature: Container Gardens and Dwellings in Far Eastern
Religious Thought, in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 35 (1993), 370-2.
Review of New Art from China, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, in TLS, 4719, September 10 1993,
17.
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Review of Klaas Ruitenbeek, Carpentry and Building in Late Imperial China: A Study of the
Fifteenth Century Carpenter's Manual Lu Ban Jing, in Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture
Society, 4.1 (Winter, 1993), 30-32.
1994
`Taste and Gender: Chinese Goods in Eighteenth Century Britain', in Dreams of the Dragon: Visions
of China and Japan, University of Essex (1994), 13-17
1995
'The Garden and the Gift' , Orientations , 26.2 (February 1995): 38-45
'Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art' positions: east asia cultures critique, 2.2 (Fall 1994): 318-57
`Report on the Study Day on 16th Century Ceramics', Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society,
58 (1993-4): 23-32
Review of John Clark ed, Modernity in Asian Art in Art History, 18.1 (March 1995): 135-6
Review of Lynn A. Struve, Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm in BSOAS, 58.1 (1995): 192
Review of Adam T. Kessler, Empires Beyond the Great Wall, and Patricia Berger and Theresa Tse
Bartholomew, Mongolia, in Far Eastern Economic Review December 21 1995: 38-9
Review of Mara Miller, The Garden as an Art, in Journal of Garden History, 15.4 (1995): 239-40
1996
Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China , Reaktion Books (London, 1996) [American
edn Duke University Press 1996]
Reviews:
Hortus, Summer 1996
TLS, 25.10.1996
THES, 6.12.1996
Burlington Magazine, December 1996
Eastern Art Report, 4.4 (1997): 59
Mitteilung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft fur Gartenkultur (1997.1): 36-7
Garden History, 1997:
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China Quarterly, December 1996: 1393-5
Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie (1997): 241-2
Journal of Asian Studies, 57.1 (1998): 183-4
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 58.1 (1998): 264-9
American Historical Review June 1998: 941-2
Journal of Asian History, 32.1 (1998): 79-80
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 41.4 (1998): 524-6
Études Chinoises, 16.2 (1997-181-2)
T'oung Pao 85 (1999): 510-5
Mark Jackson, 'Landscape/Representation/Text: Craig Clunas's Fruitful Sites', Studies in the
History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, 19.3/4 (1999): 302-313
Chinese Carving, V&A Far Eastern Series (Singapore, 1996)
`Trade Goods, Commodities and Collectables: Some Ways of Categorising Material Culture in
Sung-Yuan Texts', in Maxwell K. Hearn and Judith G. Smith eds., Arts of the Sung and Yuan,
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1996): 45-56
'Furnishing the Self in Early Modern China', in Nancy Berliner ed., Behind the Screen: Chinese
Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, 1996): 21-35
'The Forgetting Machine: reflections on the museum and the collection', in Elizabeth Hallam and
Nicky Levell eds, Communicating Otherness: Cultural Encounters (Falmer, 1996): 28-32
'Who's Afraid of Chinese Art', in Orientations, 27.5 (May 1996): 90
Review of Julia F. Andrews, Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, in Art History
19.1 (1996): 160-2
Review of Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the Qing, in China Review
International , 3.2 (Fall 1996): 237-9
Review of John Hay ed., Boundaries in China, in Orientations, 27.8 (September 1996): 93
Review of Patricia Ebrey, Cambridge Illustrated History of China, in THES
Republished:
'What is Chinese Furniture? The Changing Western Image of Chinese Furniture', in Chinese
Furniture: Selected Articles from Orientations 1984-1994 (Hong Kong, 1996): 16-25
'The Novel Jin Ping Mei as a Source for the Study of Ming Furniture', in Chinese Furniture:
Selected Articles from Orientations 1984-1994 (Hong Kong, 1996): 116-124
'Lost Interiors; Woodblock Prints and the Evidence for Chinese Furniture', in Chinese Furniture:
Selected Articles from Orientations 1984-1994 (Hong Kong, 1996): 65-72
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'Whose Throne is it Anyway ? The Qianlong Throne in the T.T. Tsui Gallery', in Chinese Furniture:
Selected Articles from Orientations 1984-1994 (Hong Kong, 1996): 73-79.
Review of Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, in Chinese Furniture: Selected
Articles from Orientations 1984-1994 (Hong Kong, 1996): 214-5
Review of Shing Yiu Yip and Grace Wu Bruce, Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and the Romance with
Huanghuali Wood: The Dr S.Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture in Chinese Furniture:
Selected Articles from Orientations 1984-1994 (Hong Kong, 1996): 216
'China in Britain: the Imperial Collections', in Belief in China: Art and Politics; Deities and
Mortality, edited by Robert Benewick and Stephanie Donald, Green Centre for Non-Western Art and
Culture at the Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums (Brighton, 1996): 10-17, abbreviated
version of 'Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art' positions: east asia cultures critique, 2.2 (Fall
1994): 318-57
1997
Art in China, Oxford History of Art (Oxford, 1997)
[Reviews not noted here]
Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (London, 1997) [American edn. Princeton University
Press]
Reviews:
Apollo, 137 (March, 1998): 59-60
THES 31 July 1998
Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie, 1998: 269-70
www.caareviews.org, 1999
Pacific Affairs, 72.1 (1999): 92-3
Timothy Brook, 'Picturing Clunas: A Review Essay', Ming Studies, 40 (1999): 117-24
Journal of Early Modern History, 3.3 (1999): 291-2
Republished:
pp. 111-20 republished as ‘Practices of Vision’, in Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S.
Hutton eds., Asian Art: Blackwell Anthologies in Art History (Malden MA/Oxford/Carlton,
2006), pp. 352-61
The Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades: an Introduction, University of
Sussex (Falmer, 1998)
`The Imperial Collections: East Asian Art' [plus catalogue entries 105 & 109], in Brenda Richardson
and Malcolm Baker eds, A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum (Baltimore,
1997): 230-7
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'Chinese Art: the Narrow View', in Fran Lloyd ed., From the Interior: Female Perspectives on
Figuration, 'East meets West' (Kingston, 1997): 31-5
`The Idea of Gu yu (`Archaic Jades') in Ming and Qing Texts', in Rosemary Scott ed., Chinese
Jades, Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia no 18, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(London, 1997): 205-14.
`Nature and Ideology in Western Descriptions of the Chinese Garden', in Joachim WolschkeBulmahn ed., Nature and Ideology: Natural Garden Design in the Twentieth Century, Dumbarton
Oaks Landscape Colloquium (Washington, 1997); 21-33
'A cultural evolution', THES 1279 (May 9 1997): 20.
Review of Donald Lach and Edwin J. van Kley, Asia in the Making of Europe, in Journal of Early
Modern History, 1.3 (1997): 261-3.
Republished:
Chinese Furniture, V&A Far Eastern Series (London, 1997), (American edn Chicago 1997)
'Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art', in Tani E. Barlow ed., Formations of Colonial Modernity in
East Asia (Durham NC, 1997), pp. 413-46, originally in positions: east asia cultures critique, 2.2
(Fall 1994): 318-57
'The Acquisition of Things: A Medium of Social Change in 16th-Century China', in Larissa Downes
ed., The Art of Affluence (Hong Kong, 1997): 15-20, abbreviated version of 'The Art of Social
Climbing in the Ming Dynasty', V&A/Arts Club Lecture, The Burlington Magazine, 133, no 1059
(1991), 368-377
'Object of the Month: Song Dynasty Jade Brush Washer, Victoria and Albert Museum', in Chinese
Jade: Selected Articles from Orientations 1983-1996 (Hong Kong, 1997): 31-3, originally in
Orientations, 17.10 (October, 1986), 32-34
1998
`Luxury Knowledge: The Xiushilu (`Records of Lacquering') of 1625', in Techniques et Cultures, 29
(1997): 27-40
'"Wine foaming in gold, tea brewing in jade": drinking culture in Ming dynasty China', in Oriental
Art, N.S., 44.2 (1998): 8-10
' All in the Best Possible Taste: the Novel Jin Ping Mei as a source for the study of Ming material
culture', in Bulletin of the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 11 (1994-7): 9-19
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'With the Grain - Aesthetic Problems of Chinese Furniture', in On the Kang and between the Walls the Ming furniture quietly installed, Grace Wu Bruce Gallery (London, 1998): 5-7
Review of Frank Dikotter, Sex, Culture and Modernity in China in BSOAS, 61.1 (1998): 183
Review of Maggie Bickford, Ink Plum: the Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre in Art
History, 21.3 (1998): 454-5
Review of Sewall Oertling, Painting and Calligraphy in the Wu-tsa-tsu in JAS 57 (1998): 830-2
Review of S.A.M. Adshead, Material Culture in Europe and China 1400-1800 in International
History Review, 20.4 (1998): 953-5
Republished:
'China in Britain: the Imperial Collections', in T. Barringer and T. Flynn eds, Colonialism and the
Object (London, 1998): 41-51 originally published in Belief in China: Art and Politics; Deities and
Mortality, edited by Robert Benewick and Stephanie Donald, Green Centre for Non-Western Art and
Culture at the Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums (Brighton, 1996): 10-17, and itself an
abbreviated version of 'Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art' positions: east asia cultures critique, 2.2
(Fall 1994): 318-57
1999
'What about Chinese art ?' in Catherine King ed., Views of Difference, Different Views of Art, Art and
its Histories (New Haven and London, 1999): 121-41.
'Souvenirs of Beijing: Authority and Subjectivity in Art Historical Memory', in Harriet Evans and
Stephanie Donald eds, Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China: Posters of the Cultural
Revolution (Lanham MD, 1999): 47-61
'Gifts and Giving in Chinese Art', in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 62, 1997-8: 1-18.
'Review Essay - Modernity Global and Local: Consumption and the Rise of the West', American
Historical Review, 104.5 (1999): 1497-1511
Review of Timothy Brook, The Confusions of Pleasure in THES, 1.1999
Review of Huters, Wong and Yu eds., Culture and State in Chinese History in Journal of Social
History 24 (1999), 345-7
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Review of Wen-hsin Yeh ed., Landscape, Power and Culture in Chinese Society in JAS, 58.3 (1999):
823-4
Review of Denis Twitchett and Frederick W. Mote eds: The Cambridge History of China, Volume 8:
The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 2 in BSOAS, 62 (1999): 179-80
2000
'Artist and Subject in Ming Dynasty China', Proceedings of the British Academy, 105 (2000): 43-72
'How Wen Zhengming Became An Artist', Sussex History of Art Research Papers,
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/sharp
'Introduction to: China: Arts and Sciences', Encarta Encyclopaedia Deluxe 2001
'What changes is the precision with which we vex each other', Review of Symposium, 'Authenticity
in Chinese Painting', Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Art Newspaper, January 2000: 3
‘Foreword’, to Nicky Levell, Oriental Visions: Exhibitions, Travel and Collecting in the Victorian
Age (London, 2000): 7-8
Review of Robert Hegel, Reading Ilustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China in China Review
International, 7.1 (Spring 2000): 90-3
Review of Geremie R. Barmé, In the Red in new formations, 40 (Spring 2000): 138-41
Review of Lothar Ledderose, Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art, in
Burlington Magazine, 142 (August 2000): 512-3
Review of Peter Burke, Varieties of Cultural History in Journal of Early Modern History 4.2 (2000):
200-2
Republished:
`Nature and Ideology in Western Descriptions of the Chinese Garden', originally in Joachim
Wolschke-Bulmahn ed., Nature and Ideology: Natural Garden Design in the Twentieth Century,
Dumbarton Oaks Landscape Colloquium (Washington, 1997); 21-33, in Léon Vandermeersch ed.,
L’Art des Jardins dans les Pays Sinisés: Chine, Japon, Corée, Vietnam. Extrême-orient - ExtrêmeOccident 22 (2000): 153-66.
2001
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‘Images of High Antiquity: The Prehistory of Art in Ming Dynasty China’, in Dieter Kuhn & Helga
Stahl eds., Die Gegenwart des Altertums: Formen und Funktionen des Altertumsbezugs in den
Hochkulturen der Alten Welt (Heidelberg, 2001): 481-91
‘Report on ‘Chinese Art in Britain: A Study Day on the History of the OCS’’, TOCS, 64 (19992000): 95-6
Review of Robert Thorpe and Richard Vinograd, Chinese Art and Culture in Art Quarterly, Summer
2001
2002
‘Preface: Picturing Cosmic Grandeur’, in Hongxing Zhang ed., Forbidden City: Treasures of an
Emperor (Edinburgh, 2002), pp. 9-11
‘Intimacy and Painting in Ming China’, History Today, 52.8 (August 2002), pp. 42-8
Review of Sarah Handler, Austere Luminosity of Classical Chinese Furniture in BSOAS 65 (2002),
pp. 58-60
Review of Ginger Cheng-chi Hsü, A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-century
Yangchow, in American Historical Review (October 2002), p. 1202
Review of Jonathan Hay, Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Qing China, in Art Bulletin, 84.4
(2002), pp. 686-8
2003
‘Social History of Art’, in Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff eds, Critical Terms for Art History,
2nd edition (Chicago, 2003), pp. 465-77
‘The Art Market in 17th Century China: the Evidence of the Li Rihua Diary’, History of Art and
History of Ideas, 1 (2003), pp. 201-24
‘Preface: In the Borderlands’, in Nicholas Tapp and Don Cohn (with the assistance of Frances
Wood). The Tribal Peoples of Southwest China : Chinese Views of the Other Within (Bangkok,
2003), pp. vi-vii.
The ‘Admonitions Scroll’ in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries: Discussant’s Remarks’, in Shane
McCausland ed., Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll (London, 2003), pp. 295-8
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‘Wang Shixiang: Spiritual Resonance and the Ten Thousand Things’, in Fariba de BruinDerakhshani and Barbara Murray eds., The 2003 Prince Claus Fund Awards (The Hague, 2003), pp.
17-23
Review of John Dardess, Blood and History in China, in Journal of Early Modern History, 7.1-2
(2003), pp. 185-7
2004
Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming 1470-1559 (London, 2004) [American edn.
University of Hawai’i Press]
Reviews:
Economist, August 19th, 2004
Art History, 23.3 (2005)
Journal of Asian Studies, 64.3 (2005)
Études chinoises, 24 (2005)
China Review International 12.2 (2005)
Synteesi (1.2006)
Aribus Asiae 65.2 (2006)
Review of Patricia Berger, Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China
in China Review International 10.2 (2003), pp. 372-5
Review of Geremie R. Barmé, An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975), in The China
Journal, 51 (2004), pp. 203-4
Review of Ye Xiaoqing, The Dianshizhai Pictorial: Shanghai Urban Life 1884-1898, in BSOAS 67/2
(2004), pp. 59-60
Republished:
Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China, paperback edition,
University of Hawai’i Press (Honolulu, 2004)
'China in Britain: the Imperial Collections', in Donald Preziosi and Clare Farrago eds., Grasping the
World, The Idea of the Museum (Aldershot, 2004), pp. 461-72, first published in Belief in China: Art
and Politics; Deities and Mortality, edited by Robert Benewick and Stephanie Donald, Green Centre
for Non-Western Art and Culture at the Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums (Brighton, 1996):
10-17, abbreviated version of 'Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art' positions: east asia cultures
critique, 2.2 (Fall 1994): 318-57
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2005
'Text, Representation and Technique in Early Modern China', in Karine Chemla ed., History of
Science, History of Text, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 238 (Dordrecht, 2005), pp.
107-21
‘Commendatory Preface’, in Nick Pearce, Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908: An Inventory
of the Yetts Collection at the University of Durham, Through Peking with a Camera, Studies in
Photographic Arts 6 (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter, 2005), pp. iii-iv
Review of Richard Curt Kraus, The Party and the Arty in China, in BSOAS 68/2 (June 2005)
Review of China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, Royal Academy of Arts, in The London Review
of Books, 1 December 2005
2006
‘’Not One Hair Different…’ Wen Zhengming on Imaging the Dead in Ming Funerary Portraiture’, in
Rupert Shepherd and Robert Maniura eds., Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images
and Other Objects (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 31-45
‘Wuzhi wenhua – zai dong xi eryuanlun zhiwai’ !"#$—%&'()*+, (‘Material Culture
Beyond the East/West Binary’), Xin Shixue -./ 17.4 (2006), pp. 195-215
‘Craig Clunas’ [Interview], in Jason C. Kuo ed., Discovering Chinese Painting: Dialogues with Art
Historians (Dubuque, Iowa, 2006), pp. 217-26
Review of James A. Flath, The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art and History in Rural North China,
in China Review International, 12.1 (Spring 2005), pp. 97-9
Review of Kai-wing Chow, Publishing, Culture and Power in Early Modern China, in The
Historian, 62.1 (2006), pp. 174-5
Republished:
'Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art' in Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins eds., The
Anthropology of Art, Blackwell Anthologies in Social & Cultural Anthropology
(Malden/Oxford.Carlton, 2006), pp. 186-208, first published in positions: east asia cultures
critique, 2.2 (Fall 1994): 318-57
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‘Practices of Vision’, in Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton eds., Asian Art: Blackwell
Anthologies in Art History (Malden MA/Oxford/Carlton, 2006), pp. 352-61, first published as pp.
111-20 in Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (London, 1997)
2007
Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644 (Reaktion
Books)
‘The Toolkit and the Textbook’, in James Elkins ed., Is Art History Global ? The Art Seminar (New
York and Abingdon, 2007), pp. 279-85
In Press
‘Commodity and Context: Wen Zhengming in the Late Ming Art Market’ in John Rosenfield ed.,
Proceedings of the 2002 Taipei Conference on the History of East Asian Painting
‘Reading Wen Zhengming: Metaphor and Chinese Art’, (forthcoming in Art History)
‘Art as Lineage in the Ming and Qing’, in Dora Ching ed., The Family Model in Chinese Art and
Culture, P.Y. and Kinmay Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University
‘Unframing Chinese Art’, History of Art and History of Ideas [English] Xin Meishu [Chinese]
'The Other Ming Tombs: Kings and their Burials in Ming China', TOCS
In process of translation:
Superfluous Things [Chinese: SDX Joint Publishing Company, Beijing]
Elegant Debts [Chinese: Rock Publishing, Taipei]
Art in China [Korean: Seoul]
Fruitful Sites [Japanese: Seidosha, Tokyo]