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The Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world

Introduction: Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China / Peter N. Miller and François Louis

Part I. Antiquarianism and Study of the Past

Writing Antiquarianism : Prolegomenon to a History / Peter N. Miller

The Many Dimensions of the Antiquary's Practice / Alain Schnapp

Far and Away? : Japan, China, and Egypt, and the Ruins of Ancient Rome in Justus Lipsius's Intellectual Journey / Jan Papy

Comparing Antiquarianisms : A View from Europe / Peter N. Miller

Part II. Authenticity and Antiquities

The Credulity Problem / Christopher S. Wood

Artifacts of Authentication : People Making Texts Making Things in Ming-Qing China / Bruce Rusk

Part III. The Discovery of the World

Styles of Medical Antiquarianism / Nancy G. Siraisi

Therapy and Antiquity in Late Imperial China / Nathan Sivin

Wang Shizhen and Li Shizhen : Archaism and Early Scientific Thought in Sixteenth-Century China / Kenneth J. Hammond

The Botany of Cheng Yaotian (1725-1814) : Multiple Perspectives on Plants / Georges Métailié

Part IV. Antiquarianism and Ethnography

The Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe : Obstacles and Missed Opportunities / Noel Malcolm

Thinking About "Non-Chinese" in Ming China / Leo K. Shin

Part V. Antiquarianism and a "History of Religion"

From Antiquarianism to Philosophical History : India, China, and the World History of Religion in European Thought (1600-1770) / Joan-Pau Rubiés

Whose Antiquarianism? : Europe Versus China in the 1701 Conflict Between Bishop Maigrot and Qiu Sheng / D.E. Mungello

From Antiquarian Imagination to the Reconstruction of Institutions : Antonius van Dale / Martin Mulsow.

Antiquarians > Europe > History.

Antiquarians > China > History.

Europe > Intellectual life > 16th century.

China > Intellectual life > 16th century.

Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century.

China > Intellectual life > 17th century.

Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century.

China > Intellectual life > 18th century.

Europe > Historiography.

China > Historiography.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) publisher.