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July 28, 2002
Ginger Cheng-Chi Hsü A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow Stanford University Press, 2000. 330 pp.; 1 color ills.; 45 b/w ills. Cloth $49.50 (0804732523)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2002.56

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Among the questions that have piqued the interest of Chinese art historians most in recent years is how painters were paid. Negotiations with patrons and clients were almost never a matter of record; indeed, fiscal transactions were rarely discussed, even by the parties involved, but rather conducted on the basis of mutually understood codes of value, taste, and reciprocity. Compensation might well come in the form of gifts and favors rather than money, further obscuring...