Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America's Pacific Century by K. Ian Shin

Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America's Pacific Century

Asian America

K. Ian Shin

328 pages first pub 2025 (view editions)

nonfiction art history
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From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest and most sophisticated collections of Chinese art....

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