Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Authors’ Note
Notes on Spelling Changes
Maps
Prologue: Our Winding Way to China
1: The Rules of the Game
2: Pacific Overtures
3: The Crimson Path
4: Barrels of Glue
5: Lament for Longmen
6: Penn Corrals the Tang Emperor’s Horses
7: Mad for Ming
8: Art on the Rails
9: The Porcelain Bubble
10: Romancing the Rockefellers
11: The Mandarin
12: Canada’s Tryst with China
13: Painting Power
14: Threads of Heaven
15: The Authenticator
16: Streams and Mountains: The View from the Middle West
17: The Met’s Marathon
18: Alien Property
19: Going for the Gold
20: The Grand Acquisitor
Epilogue: Promising Portals in the Great Wall
A Selective Chronology
Museums in North America with Collections of Chinese Antiquities
Chinese Dynasties
Acknowledgments
Sources
Selective Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Color Photographs
Index
About the Authors
Copyright
To Susan E. Meyer and Marsha Melnick, creators and critics of art