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THE CHINA COLLECTORS. Copyright © 2015 by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac. All rights reserved. For information, address Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Jacket design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

Jacket photo–illustration of Berthold Laufer (1904) © Adrian Chesterman

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Meyer, Karl E. (Karl Ernest), 1937–

The China collectors : America’s century-long hunt for Asian art treasures / Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-137-27976-7 (hardback)

1. Art, Chinese—Appreciation—United States. 2. Art—Collectors and collecting—United States—History—19th century. 3. Art—Collectors and collecting—United States—History—20th century. I. Brysac, Shareen Blair. II. Title.

N7340.M475 2015

709.51’075—dc23

2014031029

e-ISBN 978-1-4668-7929-4

First edition: March 2015

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