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The China collectors : America's century-long hunt for Asian art treasures

Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen?

eBook, English, 2015
Palgrave Macmillan Trade, New York, 2015