Emile Guimet’s Network for Research and Collecting Asian Objects (ca. 1877–1918)
(2018)
Book Chapter
Chang, T. (2018). Emile Guimet’s Network for Research and Collecting Asian Objects (ca. 1877–1918). In C. Howald, C. Guichard, & B. Savoy (Eds.), Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art on Western Markets (209-222). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110545081-013
Outputs (5)
Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier and French Sinology, ca. 1875-1925 (2016)
Journal Article
Chang, T. (2016). Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier and French Sinology, ca. 1875-1925. Esprit Créateur, 56(3), 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2016.0028This article argues that the French sinologist Henri Cordier (1849-1926) used his private correspondence with a vast international network of diplomats, administrators, missionaries, writers and scholars of every field of Asian studies between the 18... Read More about Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier and French Sinology, ca. 1875-1925.
Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier's Correspondence and the Network of French Sinology, 1875-1925 (2016)
Journal Article
Chang, T. (2016). Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier's Correspondence and the Network of French Sinology, 1875-1925. Esprit Créateur, 56(3), 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2016.0028This article examines the French sinologist Henri Cordier’s correspondence as a form of crowdsourcing between 1875 and 1925. Cordier’s multinational and multidirectional exchanges show the vital role of letter writing in his development as a student... Read More about Crowdsourcing avant la lettre: Henri Cordier's Correspondence and the Network of French Sinology, 1875-1925.
Paris, Japan and modernity: a vexed ratio (2016)
Book Chapter
Chang, T. (2016). Paris, Japan and modernity: a vexed ratio. In H. Clayson, & A. Dombrowski (Eds.), Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?: Essays on Art and Modernity, 1850-1900. Routledge
French sinology and Gustave Caillebotte’s Portrait of Henri Cordier, 1883
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chang, T. French sinology and Gustave Caillebotte’s Portrait of Henri Cordier, 1883. Presented at Work in Progress Seminar, Department of Art History, University College LondonThis presentation examines the competing and sometimes conflicting demands encountered in the study of portraiture and biography. Once revised, the paper will become an article that will make an original contribution to art history in empirical and c... Read More about French sinology and Gustave Caillebotte’s Portrait of Henri Cordier, 1883.