Craig Clunas
British art historian
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- PhD Art History University of Sussex
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alistair Craig Clunas is Professor Emeritus of History of Art at the University of Oxford. As a historian of the art and history of China, Clunas has focused particularly on the Ming Dynasty . Life Clunas attended Aberdeen Grammar School from 1959 to 1972, which was followed by a Diploma with Distinction in spoken and written modern Chinese from the Peking Languages Institute in Beijing. He next majored in Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate, graduating with a BA in 1977 and afterwards went to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London where he wrote his PhD dissertation on Injanasi's "Nigen Dabqur Asar": a Sino-Mongolian novel of the 19th century under the supervision of Charles Bawden. Clunas began his scholarly career at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where for 15 years he was on the curatorial staff and was responsible for the installation of new Chinese galleries. In 1994, he moved to the University of Sussex, where he became Professor of History of Art in 1997. In 2003, he returned to SOAS where he was the Percival David Professor of Chinese and East Asian Art from 2004.
Craig Clunas's Published Works
Published Works
- Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China (1992) (250)
- Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China (1998) (80)
- Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (1997) (73)
- Modernity Global and Local: Consumption and the Rise of the West (1999) (61)
- Art in China (1997) (32)
- The World in Miniature: Container Gardens and Dwellings in Far Eastern Religious Thought (1990) (31)
- Empire of Great Brightness: Visual And Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644 (2007) (26)
- Elegant debts : the social art of Wen Zhengming, 1470-1559 (2004) (21)
- Chinese Export Art and Design (1987) (14)
- Chinese Art and Chinese Artists in France (1924-1925) (1989) (12)
- Ming: 50 years that changed China (2014) (11)
- Chinese Export Watercolours (1984) (11)
- Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art (1994) (10)
- Social History of Art (2003) (9)
- Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries (1996) (9)
- Nature and ideology in Western descriptions of the chinese gardens (2000) (7)
- Connected Material Histories: A response (2016) (5)
- Things in Between: Splendour and Excess in Ming China (2012) (5)
- Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China (2013) (4)
- Luxury knowledge: the Xiushilu ("records of lacquering")of 1625 (1998) (3)
- China in Britain: The Imperial Collections (2019) (3)
- Reading Wen Zhengming: metaphor and Chinese painting (2009) (3)
- Artist and Subject in Ming Dynasty China (2000) (2)
- The Art Market in 17th Century China: the Evidence of the Li Rihua Diary (2003) (2)
- An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1889-1975) (2004) (2)
- K'ang-hsi and the consolidation of Ch'ing rule 1661–1684 . By Lawrence D. Kessler. pp. xi, 251. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1976. £16.50. (1979) (2)
- Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos (2020) (2)
- The art of global comparisons (2013) (2)
- Regarding Art and Art History (2013) (1)
- Chinese art and design : the T.T. Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art (1991) (1)
- Looking at the Lewd in Ming China (2009) (1)
- Beyond the Screen (2000) (1)
- Text, Representation and Technique in Early Modern China (2004) (1)
- Ch'i-Ch'ing Hsiao: The military establishment of the Yuan dynasty . (Harvard East Asia Monographs, 77.) vii, 314 pp., map. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1978. (Distributed by Harvard University Press.) (1980) (0)
- Challenging the calligraphy canon : the reception of rubbing collections in Ming China (2013) (0)
- Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China (review) (2004) (0)
- Dikötter Frank: Sex, culture and modernity in China: medical science and the construction of sexual identities in the early Republican period . ix, 233 pp. London: Hurst & Company, 1995. £19.50. (1998) (0)
- 'Civilising' China : visualising wenming in contemporary Chinese art (2015) (0)
- The gift and the garden (1995) (0)
- A Bushel of Pearls (Book) (2002) (0)
- Chunmei Du: Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey. (Encounters with Asia.) 251 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. £60. ISBN 978 0 81225120 3. (2020) (0)
- Wine foaming in gold, tea brewing in Jade : Drinking culture in Ming dynasty China (1998) (0)
- Studies in Chinese Buddhism . By Arthur F. Wright, edited by Robert M. Somers pp. xii, 204. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1990. £20.00. (1991) (0)
- Chinese Ivories at the British Museum (1984) (0)
- David Johnson and tow others (ed).: Popular culture in late imperial China . xvii, 449 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1985. £33.95. (1987) (0)
- Book Reviews (2002) (0)
- The refusal to be exotic (1993) (0)
- Susan Bush and Hsio-Yen Shih (comp. and ed.): Early Chinese texts on painting . xii, 391 pp. Cambridge, Mass and London: Harvard University Press, 1985, £18. 25. (1987) (0)
- Interview with Ming Scholars (2021) (0)
- South Asia (1999) (0)
- Lynn A. Struve (ed. and tr.): Voices from the Ming-Qing cataclysm: China in tigers' jaws, x, 303 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993. £27.50, $40. (1995) (0)
- China Under Mongol Rule . Edited by John D. Langlois Jr., pp. xvi, 490, 8 pl. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, [1981]. £17.50. (1982) (0)
- Jerome Silbergeld: Chinese Painting style: media, methods and principles of form . xi, 68 pp., 48 Plates. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1982. $37.50, £21 (Paper $18.50, £10.50). (1984) (0)
- The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China by Dorothy Ko (2019) (0)
- Emperor Huizong. By Patricia Buckley Ebrey. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. xxix, 661. $45.00.) (2016) (0)
- Timothy Brook: The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties . (History of Imperial China.) vi, 329 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. £25.95. ISBN 978 0 674 04602 3 (2011) (0)
- Zhongya xuekan/Journal of central Asia (Chinese Society for Central Asian Studies[Beijing]), I, 1984, [iv], 283 pp., I foldout chart. (1987) (0)
- Painting and Calligraphy in the Wu-tsa-tsu: Conservative Aesthetics in Seventeenth-Century China . By Sewall J. Oertling. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1997. viii, 217 pp. $50.00 (cloth). (1998) (0)
- Reviews of Books:A. Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow Ginger Cheng-Chi Hsu (2002) (0)
- MAKING CHINA VISIBLE by Marcia Reed, Paola Demattè, Larissa M. Heinrich and Xiaobing Tang (2009) (0)
- YE XIAOQING: The Dianshizhai Pictorial: Shanghai Urban Life 1884–1898. (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, 98.) viii, 249 pp. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2003. £31. (2004) (0)
- Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing (review) (2011) (0)
- Reading a Painter’s Price List in Republican Shanghai (2016) (0)
- Chinese art and design : art objects in ritual and daily life (1991) (0)
- The Politics of Inscription in Modern Chinese Art (2017) (0)
- Ming China : courts and contacts, 1400-1450 (2016) (0)
- Books Received (1992) (0)
- Images in Compressed Times (2018) (0)
- Is Art History Global? PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation of CVISION PDFCompressor (2011) (0)
- SARAH HANDLER: Austere luminosity of Chinese classical furniture . xi, 417 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001. $65. (2002) (0)
- 'Not One Hair Different' Wen Zhengming on Imaging the Dead in Ming Funerary Portraiture (2006) (0)
- richard curt kraus: the party and the arty in china: the new politics of culture. (state and society in east asia series.) xi, 247 pp. lanham/boulder/new york/toronto/oxford: rowman and littlefield, 2004. £57 hardback, £20.95 paperback. (2005) (0)
- Images of High Antiquity: The Prehistory of Art in Ming Dynasty China (2001) (0)
- The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China (review) (2005) (0)
- Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China (review) (2000) (0)
- Ginger Cheng-chi Hsü. A. Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 314. $49.50 (2002) (0)
- Painting as Visual and Material Culture in Ming China (2011) (0)
- Cultural Atlas of China . By Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin. pp. 237. Oxford, Phaidon, [1983]. £17.50. (1984) (0)
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