Justin Jacobs《掠夺的赔偿：中国如何失去文物》出版

The Compensations of Plunder：

HOW CHINA LOST ITS TREASURES

作者: JACOBS, JUSTIN M.
出版社: University of Chicago Press
出版年: 2020-6
页数: 352
定价: $27.50
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780226712017

本书简介

From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely regarded as stolen from their countries of origin, and demands for their repatriation grow louder by the day. In The Compensations of Plunder, Justin M. Jacobs brings to light the historical context of the exodus of cultural treasures from northwestern China. Based on a close analysis of previously neglected archives in English, French, and Chinese, Jacobs finds that many local elites in China acquiesced to the removal of art and antiquities abroad, understanding their trade as currency for a cosmopolitan elite. In the decades after the 1911 Revolution, however, these antiquities went from being “diplomatic capital” to disputed icons of the emerging nation-state. A new generation of Chinese scholars began to criminalize the prior activities of archaeologists, erasing all memory of the pragmatic barter relationship that once existed in China. Recovering the voices of those local officials, scholars, and laborers who shaped the global trade in antiquities, The Compensations of Plunder brings historical grounding to a highly contentious topic in modern Chinese history and informs heated debates over cultural restitution throughout the world.

作者、译者

Justin Jacobs，加州大学圣地亚哥分校博士（2011），师从周锡瑞(Joseph W. Esherick)和毕克伟（Paul Pickowicz）教授，华盛顿大学中国研究硕士（2005）、英语文学学士（2002），现任美国大学（ American University）历史学副教授，主要研究近代中国西北边疆史、帝国史和考古考察的历史政治。

目录

Introduction
1. Sahibs in the Desert
2. Accumulating Culture
3. Gentlemen of Empire
4. The Priceless Nation
5. Rise of the Apprentices
6. Foreign Devils Begone
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Pär Cassel, University of Michigan

“Jacobs tells the story of how the cultural relics of northwest China were collected, dispersed, and sometimes destroyed, in a new and refreshingly nonjudgmental way. Drawing on insights from literature on similar processes in the ailing Ottoman Empire as well as on primary sources in English, French, and Chinese, he narrates this story in granular detail and with a keen sense of the motives of the individual actors on both the Western and Chinese side of the story. Clearly the result of a very meticulously researched project, The Compensations of Plunder is a well-crafted and tremendously enjoyable read.”

G. Li | Choice

"This revisionist work challenges Chinese nationalist discourse of how China lost its treasure during the turn of the 20th century to reevaluate the rational historical actors—Western archaeologists who went on expeditions in Xinjiang—through a new explanatory framework: the compensations of plunder."