Chinese Toggles

Culture in Miniature

Shuxia Chen, Min-Jung Kim

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Power Publications
01 September 2024

History

This book introduces the understudied cultural artifact of the Chinese belt toggle, known as zhuizi (). 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 17th century but were scarcely collected. A collaboration between the Powerhouse Museum and Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, this publication reveals one of the world's largest collections of these extraordinary objects.

More than personal accessories, toggles were wearable symbols, embodying Chinese folk traditions and cultural beliefs. Today, they can speak to 300 years of Chinese culture across various levels of society. These intricately carved miniatures display the finesse of traditional craft skills through a broad range of materials from jade, ivory and amber to wood, glass and seeds.

Coinciding with an exhibition of the same title at the University of Sydney's Chau Chak Wing Museum, Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature, combines curatorial and scientific analysis of the objects' histories and materials by art historians, archaeologists, scientists, and curators.

Edited by the exhibition's curators, this book allows a larger audience to engage with these unique objects, pairing academic enquiry with detailed photographic documentation of both the exhibition itself, and the catalogue of 80 toggles.

With contributions by Elizabeth Carter, Paul Donnelly, Gu Fang, Meredith Freeman, Therese Harrison, Lorraine Leung, Claire Roberts and Brad Swarbrick

By: Shuxia Chen, Min-Jung Kim
Imprint: Power Publications
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 190mm,
Weight: 770g
ISBN: 9780909952242
ISBN 10: 0909952248
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shuxia Chen is a historian and Chau Chak Wing Museum curator for the China Gallery. She is a lecturer in curating and cultural leadership at the School of Art & Design, University of New South Wales Sydney.Min-Jung Kim is curator of Asian arts at Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

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Chinese Toggles

Culture in Miniature

Shuxia Chen, Min-Jung Kim

$112.95 $90.06

Hardback

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