Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature - Hardcover
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Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature
Rare objects from one of the world's only major collections
This book introduces the understudied cultural artifact of the Chinese belt toggle, known as zhuizi (坠子). Similar to their better-known Japanese counterparts, netsuke, these small carved ornaments offer a rare glimpse into everyday life in early modern China.
Toggles were a feature of traditional Chinese garments from the seventeent...
Shuxia Chen is a lecturer at the University of New South Wales School of Art & Design. She was the inaugural curator of the China Gallery and East Asian Collections at the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Min-Jung Kim is curator of Asian arts at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse Museum), Sydney.
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