Superfluous Things

Sinossi

contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Books about things: The literature of Ming connoisseurship
2. Ideas about things: Themes in Ming connoisseurship literature
3. Words about things: The language of Ming connoisseurship
4. Things of the past: Uses of the antique in Ming material culture
5. Things in motion: Ming luxury objects as commodities
6. Anxieties about things: Consumption and class in Ming China
Conclusion
Appendix I Editors of Treatise on Superfluous Things
Appendix II Selected prices for works of art and antique artefacts c. 1560-1620
Notes
Bibliography of primary sources
Bibliography of secondary literature
Index