Craig Clunas is Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford, and the author of <i Superfluous Things</i (1991), <i Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China</i (Reaktion, 1996), <i Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China</i (Reaktion, 1997), <i Art in China</i (1997) and <i Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming</i (Reaktion, 2004).