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Superfluous Things: Social Status and Term Paper
Pages:5 (1569 words)
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Subject:Social Science
Topic:Archeology
Document Type:Term Paper
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But given the substantial amount of other evidence about the Ming Dynasty, a more useful framing device would have helped locate the figures Clunas chronicles, and made their analysis seem less iconoclastic. Clunas persuades the reader that these particular figures saw the way that a home or a garden was organized paralleled the way that a human mind and life should be organized. But can a relatively small number of intellectuals seem to represent an era?
Another way of looking at this technique is to ask that if one were analyzing Europe of this period, could one construct a historiography simply of an analysis of Machiavelli and Michelangelo? Probably not -- there must be some greater historical location of these figures to truly provide a convincing and satisfying analysis of their influence. Especially for someone who is not well-versed in the period, this book may seem to be on shaky ground, with many of the blanket assumptions it makes regarding life during the period, and the ways that material organization and the value of objects reflected the view of human life.
Works Cited
Clunas, Craig. Superfluous Things: Social Status and Material Culture in Early Modern
China. Chicago: Illinois University Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2004.
Craig Clunas." University of London: SOAS. Faculty Biography. 2006. [2 Dec…
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Works Cited
Clunas, Craig. Superfluous Things: Social Status and Material Culture in Early Modern
China. Chicago: Illinois University Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2004.
Craig Clunas." University of London: SOAS. Faculty Biography. 2006. [2 Dec 2006] http://www.soas.ac.uk/art/clunas.html
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