Superfluous Things(English, Paperback, Clunas Craig)

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Superfluous Things(English, Paperback, Clunas Craig) is written by Clunas Craig and published by University of Hawai'i Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0824828208 (ISBN 10) and 9780824828202 (ISBN 13).

This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes ""superfluous things"" - the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China - and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.