Arts of Early Modern China (1500-1700)

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The subject is the arts of the early modern period in China, from the 16th- to the 18th- century. The objects studied include calligraphy and ink paintings, lacquer and porcelain, illustrated books, and landscapes architecture. Will introduce two sets of linked concepts, agency and artistic imagination, economic globalization and cultural hybridity, concepts that will frame interpretive understanding of the objects.