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Craig Clunas

Craig Clunas is professor of the history of art at Oxford. His most recent book is Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China.

Selected bibliography

  • Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644 (2007)
  • Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China (2004)
  • Elegant Debts: The Social Art od Wen Zhengming 1470-1559 (2004)
  • Art in China (1997)
  • Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (1997)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Who has the biggest books? · 7 February 2008

  • Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 by Liam Matthew Brockey  Buy this book

At the British Museum: Craig Clunas on the Terracotta Army · 3 January 2008

At the Royal Academy: Art of the Emperors · 1 December 2005