Wu Anna. Chinese wallpaper, global histories and material culture

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — London: The Royal College of Art, 2018. — 493 p.: ill.This thesis investigates Chinese wallpaper as global material culture. It goes beyond the traditional contexts of Europe, the eighteenth century country house and the ‘Chinese room’, in which Chinese wallpapers have historically been assessed, to examine how and why people have used Chinese wallpaper in a wider variety of temporal, cultural and spatial contexts. In so doing, it challenges a long tradition of Eurocentric approaches to Chinese wallpaper and Chinese export art more generally.