JAN 2001

VOLUME 32 - NUMBER 1

The series of articles in this issue focuses on highlights in the collection of the Musée Guimet in Paris to celebrate its reopning on 15 January after a four-year renovation project.

FEATURES
Jean-Paul Desroches. The Maritime Trade Routes Gallery in the Musee Guimet
Xavier Besse. A Passion for Chinese Ceramics: The Story of the Ernest Grandidier Collection
Catherine Delacour. The Role of the Horse and the Camel in Chinese Expansion Along Western Trade Routes
Amina Okada. The Jean And Krishna Riboud Donation at the Musee Guimet
Pierre Baptiste. The Restoration of Khmer Sculptures: New Perspectives
Jean-Francois Jarrige. The Renovation of the Musee Guimet
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Julie M. Segraves. Book Review: Edited by Mary Hunt Kahlenerg, The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Textiles and Objects from the Collections of Lloyd Costen and the Neutrogena Corporation, Harry N Abrams, New York, 1998
Robert P. Piccus. Book Review: Lion-dogs, Hundred Antiques: Classical Chinese Carpets I, Preface by Hans Konig with essays by Hwee Lie The, Gary Dickinson and Michael Franses
INTERVIEWS
Hwee Lie Blehaut. An Interview with Lionel Fournier
COMMENTARY
James Cahill. Commentary: The Present Status of Riverbank