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32
Zhuang Shangyan “Fu Ying canjia Lundun Zhongguo yishu guoji zhanlan huiji”
(1936).
33 Chinese Organzing Committee, Canjia Lundun Zhongguo yishu guoji zhan lan hui chu
pin tushuoਞ̋ࡐʕᖵஔყ࢝ᚎึ̈ۜྡႭ [Illustrated Catalogue of objects
selected for the London International Exhibition of Chinese Art] (Shanghai: Shangwu
yinshuguan, 1936), iii.
34 Zhuang Shangyan, “Fu Ying canjia Lundun Zhongguo yishu guoji zhanlan huiji,”
section 2.
35
The English did not understand this latter principle. See Zhuang Shangyan, “Fu Ying
canjia Lundun Zhongguo yishu guoji zhanlan huiji.”
36 Zhuang Shangyan, ibid., section 3. Zhuang’s memoirs lists the names of the special
English committee that traveled to Shanghai to finalize the list.
37
“Departure of Treasures for England,” The Times, June 8, 1935.
38 “Departure of Treasures for England,” The Times, June 8, 1935.
39
“Zhi you bei qinzhan de tudi meiyou bei qinzhan de wenhua – Zhongguo zai qianyun
zhong de zhanlan,” This article, the author of which I have not yet ascertained, contains
a detailed summary of the event. It also includes pictures of these Palace Museum staff
workers, the exhibition spaces, and a letter of thanks written by Guo Baochang,
Jingdezhen imperial commissioner for porcelain production under Yuan Shikai.
40
Margaret Kao, China’s Response to the West in Art: 1898-1937, unpublished Ph.d.
dissertation, Stanford University, 1972, 146; Zhuang Shangyan “Fu Ying canjia Lundun
Zhongguo yishu guoji zhanlan huiji,” section 4.
41
Margaret Kao, China’s Response to the West in Art: 1898-1937 (1972), 196.
42 Percival David, “A Preliminary Survey,” 239-251.
43
R. L. Hobson, “The Chinese Exhibition at the Burlington House,” Apollo: A Journal
for the Arts 22 (December, 1935): 311.
44 For a precise concise statement of Orientalist structures of knowledge, see Timothy
Mitchell, “Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order,” in Grasping the World: The Idea of
the Museum (2004), 442.
