Suzanne G. Valenstein is a research scholar at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is retired from the Metropolitan’s department of Asian art, where she was curator of Chinese ceramics for thirty-five years.
-This lavishly illustrated work is a tour de force study very much
in the mold of the same author's Cultural Convergence in the
Northern Qi Period: A Flamboyant Chinese Ceramic Container, a
research monograph (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007). -Both of
these volumes focus on a single ceramic piece, but -- by
assiduously tracing the origins and parallels of the motifs on them
-- the author is able to explicate the Eurasian wide cultural
connections that they embody. -You probably won't be able to find
any reference to Cosmopolitanism in the Tang Dynasty anywhere for a
while yet, but do keep your eye open for it, since this is a signal
publication for anyone who is interested in Sogdians, Turks, the
history of wine, mortuary figures, and ceramic technology during
the medieval period.- --Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese
Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania
"This lavishly illustrated work is a tour de force study very much
in the mold of the same author's Cultural Convergence in the
Northern Qi Period: A Flamboyant Chinese Ceramic Container, a
research monograph (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007). "Both of
these volumes focus on a single ceramic piece, but -- by
assiduously tracing the origins and parallels of the motifs on them
-- the author is able to explicate the Eurasian wide cultural
connections that they embody. "You probably won't be able to find
any reference to Cosmopolitanism in the Tang Dynasty anywhere for a
while yet, but do keep your eye open for it, since this is a signal
publication for anyone who is interested in Sogdians, Turks, the
history of wine, mortuary figures, and ceramic technology during
the medieval period." --Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese
Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania
"This lavishly illustrated work is a tour de force study very much
in the mold of the same author's Cultural Convergence in the
Northern Qi Period: A Flamboyant Chinese Ceramic Container, a
research monograph (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007). "Both of
these volumes focus on a single ceramic piece, but -- by
assiduously tracing the origins and parallels of the motifs on them
-- the author is able to explicate the Eurasian wide cultural
connections that they embody. "You probably won't be able to find
any reference to Cosmopolitanism in the Tang Dynasty anywhere for a
while yet, but do keep your eye open for it, since this is a signal
publication for anyone who is interested in Sogdians, Turks, the
history of wine, mortuary figures, and ceramic technology during
the medieval period." --Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese
Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania
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