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Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.
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The International Market for Chinese Art in the 1940s and 1950s: The Rockefellers and Chinese Antiquities

January 1, 2009

The Rockefeller Archive Center grant-in-aid gave me a rare opportunity to work with experts and materials that I would not otherwise have had the ability to examine. My project, a study of the integration of antiquities into the modern Chinese state, necessitated an understanding of the international market for Chinese art during the 1940s and 50s. The documents I found at the Rockefeller Archive Center not only illustrate the Rockefellers' own interests in Asia, but also the working lives of many Chinese art dealers and collectors, with whom the family maintained contact with throughout the twentieth century.

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