Introduction: memory and agency in ancient China: shaping the life histories of objects / Francis Allard, Yan Sun and Katheryn M. Linduff -- Memory, amnesia and the formation of identity symbols in ...

Typically, any object that has been around longer than we have can give us a feeling of warmth. For example, scuffed-up wooden chairs, ceramics that have a small crack, and black-and-white photos ...

People make reference to an almost limitless variety of tangible objects in the narrations of their early recollections. Yet, from this world of things an individual is only able to attend to a few ...