Collectors, collections & collecting the arts of China : histories & challenges / edited by Jason Steuber, with Guolong Lai.

"Based on a symposium co-organized by Guolong Lai and Jason Steuber."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jason Steuber -- Early Chicago chronicles of early Chinese art / Elinor Pearlstein -- The early formation of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum's Chinese Collection / Deborah Del Gais -- Art and science as competing values in the formation of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm / Magnus Fiskesjö -- Stewart Culin: Chinese vernacular culture in America and the enchantment of the museum / Amy G. Poster -- Florence Ayscough: pioneer promoter of modern Chinese painting in America / Zaixin Hong -- C.T. Loo and the formation of the Chinese collection at the Freer Gallery of Art, 1915-1951 / Daisy Yiyou Wang -- A tale of two tureens: the early Chinese bronze collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Guolong Lai -- A unique pair: the bronze rhinoceros and its collector, Avery Brundage / Jay Xu -- Reinventing "China": provenance, categories, and the collecting of Chinese ceramics, 1910-2010 / Stacey Pierson -- Objectives and challenges: past, present, and future of collecting Chinese antiquities in the Royal Ontario Museum / Chen Shen -- Perspectives on collecting and provenance: the arts of China at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art / Jason Steuber -- CARP-ON: further thoughts on Chinese art provenance research / Nick Pearce.

This is a scholarly volume that provides a systematic overview of major histories of fine collections of Chinese art in the UK, US, and Canada, including collections built in the 18th through the 21st centuries.