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Journal Article
The China Quarterly
2008
Overview
458 The China Quarterly, 194, June 2008, pp. 428461 Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China F R A N K D I K T T E RNew York: Columbia University Press, 2006 xvi + 382 pp. $35.00 ISBN 978-0-231-14116-1 doi:10.1017/S0305741008000726 Things Modern: Material Culture and Everyday Life in China F R A N K D I K T T E RLondon: C. Hurst & Co, 2007xvi + 382 pp. 25.00ISBN 978-1-85065-815-3 doi:10.1017/S0305741008000726 Frank Diktter always has something stimulating to say. (Quick, collect the enamelware spittoons, ballpoint pens, bicycles and radios of that era before they are gone.) This book also makes sense of the post-Mao burst of globally connected production and consumption (if anyone is left to be surprised by it), and will, I hope, stimulate readers of this journal to do serious research on todays fast-changing material manifestations of Chinese modernity. S U S A N N A Q U I N Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 13681644 C R A I G C L U N A SLondon: Reaktion Press, 2007288 pp. 35.00ISBN 978-1-86189-331-4 doi:10.1017/S0305741008000738 In Empire of Great Brightness, Craig Clunas argues that the Ming (lit. bright) dynasty was a visual culture because its foundational rhetoric reified the visual and visible quality of brightness, because the Ming state made culture by making things visible, and because visuality, vision as social fact (p. 13), was central to quotidian life both within and outside the court.
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Cambridge University Press
