Collecting China

The Memoirs of a Hong Kong Art Addict

Brian McElney

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Earnshaw Books Limited
30 January 2017

Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Antiques & collectables: ceramics & glass

Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for more than two decades was one of the territory's top lawyers. But in his spare time, he also put together one of the most comprehensive collections of East Asian antiques in the world, many of them spotted by him amongst the knick-knacks on Hollywood Road and Cat Street. His memoir, Collecting China, starts at the height of the Cultural Revolution in the mid-1960s, when it was just not known whether the Red Guards would storm over the border and start smashing up porcelain on the Mid-Levels, and then tells tales ranging from the Hong Kong of the 1930s through to the establishment by Brian of what is today the only museum specialising in Chinese antiquities in the United Kingdom - the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath.

By: Brian McElney
Imprint: Earnshaw Books Limited
Country of Publication: Hong Kong
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9789888422487
ISBN 10: 9888422480
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 30 January 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brian McElney OBE was born in Hong Kong, educated primarily in England and worked for 35 years as a lawyer back in Hong Kong, meanwhile gathering what has become a world famous collection of Chinese antiquities. He now lives in Bath in southern England where he founded the Museum of East Asian Art.