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SUMMARY:Porcelains and Power: The Politics of Chinese Art in the Age of Ame
 rican Ascendancy
LOCATION:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, U
 SA
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Dr. Ian Shin (Department of American Culture\, Univer
 sity of Michigan)\, co-sponsored with the Department of History.\nHow can 
 we understand the relationship between art collecting and Western imperial
 ism as more than simply a story of victim and aggressor\, of the plundered
  and the plunderer? From the Gilded Age to World War II\, elite collectors
  and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of 
 Chinese porcelains to possessing some of the world’s largest and most so
 phisticated collections of Chinese art.\nIn this talk\, historian Ian Shin
  shows that\, beyond aesthetic taste and economics\, geopolitics were vita
 l to this transformation. Collecting and studying Chinese art honed Americ
 ans’ belief that they should dominate Asia and the Pacific Ocean through
  the ideology of “imperial stewardship.” U.S. imperial stewardship enc
 ompassed both genuine curiosity and care for Chinese art\, and the endurin
 g structures of domination that underpinned the growing transpacific art m
 arket in the early twentieth century. Far more than a history of cultural 
 “exchange” between the United States and China\, this is also a histor
 y of rivalries and feuds with European curators and enterprising Chinese m
 erchants.\nUltimately\, this talk challenges us to come to terms with how 
 our interest in and desire for beautiful art are inextricable from questio
 ns of power.\nFree\, but space is limited\; registration required below.\n
 \nThis event is part of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Campus Life Experience (CLE)
  program. Students who attend can scan the QR code provided at the event t
 o receive CLE credit.
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