Publication : Ting Chang, Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Ashgate, 2013 Ting Chang Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950 Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines a history of contact between modern Europe and East Asia through three collectors: Henri Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt. Drawing on a wealth of material including European travelogues of the East and Asian reports of the West, ..