Craig Clunas - Publications#

Monographs (selected):

Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China (London, 2013), pp. 248

Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644 (London, 2007) [based on the Slade lectures, Oxford 2004]

Elegant Debts; the Social Art of Wen Zhengming (1470-1559) (London, 2004; and Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai'i Press, 2004), Chinese translations: Ya zhai – Wen Zhengming de shejiaoxing yishu, translated by Liu Yuzhen, Qiu Shihua and Hu Jun, (Taipei, 2009), republished (Beijing, 2012)

Pictures and Visuality in Early modern China (London, 1997; and Princeton Univ. Press, 1997; Chinese translation: Mingdai de tuxiang yu shijuexing, translated by Huang Xiaojuan (Beijing, 2011)

Art in China, in the series: Oxford History of Art, (Oxford, 1997; second edition 2009); Korean translation: Saeropge Yigneun Junggukeui Misul, translated by Young-ae Lim, (Seoul, 2008); Chinese translation: Zhongguo meishu, translated by Liu Ying, Shanghai renmin chubanshe (Shanghai, 2012)

Fruitful sites: garden culture in Ming dynasty China, 1996; Japanese translation: Mindai Chūgoku teien no bunka, translated by Miyoko Nakano, (Tokyo, 2008)

Superfluous Things: social status and material culture in Early Modern China (Cambridge,1991; republished by Duke Univ. Press, 1994; and Univ. of Hawai'i Press, 2004

Chinese export watercolours (London, 1984)

Articles (selected):

‘The Art of Global Comparisons’ in Maxine Berg ed., Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the 21st Century (Oxford, 2013), pp. 165-176

Things in between : splendour and excess in Ming China, in The Oxford handbook of the history of consumption / edited by Frank Trentmann. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Antiquarian politics and the politics of antiquarianism in Ming regional courts; in: Reinventing the past: archaism and antiquarianism in Chinese art and visual culture / edited by Wu Hung. Chicago: Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago : Art Media Resources, 2010

‘Reading Wen Zhengming: Metaphor and Chinese Art’, Word and Image, 25.1 (2009), pp. 96-102

The Toolkit and the Textbook, in: Is art history global? / edited by James Elkins. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Beyond the East/West Binary’), Xin Shixue 新史學 17.4 (2006), pp. 195-215

Oriental antiquities/far eastern art, in Formations of colonial modernity in East Asia / Tani E. Barlow, editor. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997.