The Compensations of Plunder
How China Lost Its Treasures
Seiten
2020
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-71196-6 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-71196-6 (ISBN)
From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely seen as "stolen" or "plundered" from their countries of origin, and demands for their return grow louder by the day. In this pathbreaking study, Justin M. Jacobs challenges the longstanding assumption that coercion, corruption, and deceit were chiefly responsible for the exodus of cultural treasures from northwestern China. Based upon a close analysis of previously neglected archival sources in English, French, and Chinese, Jacobs finds that many local elites in China acquiesced to the removal of art and antiquities abroad, understanding their trade as currency for a cosmopolitan elite. In the decades after the 1911 Revolution, however, these antiquities went from being "diplomatic capital" to disputed icons of the emerging nation-state. A new generation of Chinese scholars began to criminalize the prior activities of archaeologists, erasing all memory of the pragmatic barter relationship that once existed in China. Recovering the voices of those local officials, scholars, and laborers who shaped the global trade in antiquities, The Compensations of Plunder brings historical grounding to a highly contentious topic in modern Chinese history and informs heated debates over cultural restitution throughout the world.
Justin M. Jacobs is associate professor of history at American University. He is the author of Indiana Jones in History and Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State. He also serves as editor of The Silk Road journal and hosts Beyond Huaxia, a podcast on East Asian history.
Introduction
1. Sahibs in the Desert
2. Accumulating Culture
3. Gentlemen of Empire
4. The Priceless Nation
5. Rise of the Apprentices
6. Foreign Devils Begone
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 27.08.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Silk Roads |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-71196-X / 022671196X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-71196-6 / 9780226711966 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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