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Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature

Autor Shuxia Chen, Min-Jung Kim
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 dec 2024
This book introduces the understudied cultural artifact of the Chinese belt toggle, known as zhuizi. Similar to their better-known Japanese counterparts netsuke, these small carved ornaments offer a rare glimpse into everyday life in early modern China. Toggles were a feature of traditional Chinese garments from the 17th century but were scarcely collected. A collaboration between the Powerhouse Museum and Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, this publication reveals one of the world's largest collections of these extraordinary objects. More than personal accessories, toggles were wearable symbols, embodying Chinese folk traditions and cultural beliefs. Today, they can speak to 300 years of Chinese culture across various levels of society. These intricately carved miniatures display the finesse of traditional craft skills through a broad range of materials from jade, ivory and amber to wood, glass and seeds. Coinciding with an exhibition of the same title at the University of Sydney's Chau Chak Wing Museum, Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature, combines curatorial and scientific analysis of the objects' histories and materials by art historians, archaeologists, scientists, and curators. Edited by the exhibition's curators, this book allows a larger audience to engage with these unique objects, pairing academic enquiry with detailed photographic documentation of both the exhibition itself, and the catalogue of 80 toggles.
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ISBN-13: 9780909952242
ISBN-10: 0909952248
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 180
Dimensiuni: 190 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Power Publications (Australia)
Colecția Power Publications (australia)
Locul publicării:Australia