The World of Fans: East Asian Fans in Slovenian Museum Collections

The book The World of Fans – East Asian Fans in Slovenian Museum Collections offers a comprehensive insight into the rich and diverse tradi­tion of East Asian fans, and presents how they have been researched in Slovenia. The monograph is the result of research work carried out as part of the project Orphaned Objects: Dealing with East Asian Objects Outside Organized Collecting Practices in Slovenia, and explores the development of fans and their function in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean societies. It also focuses on the role of the fan as a collector’s item, with a particular emphasis on East Asian fans in Slovenian museums as part of research into East Asian collections. The analysis and interpretation of East Asian fans from the late 19th and early 20th centuries is accompanied by rich visual material. In six chapters, it examines fans as part of cultural heritage and art, reflecting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean traditions, craft techniques, and the aesthetic values of different historical periods and cultures, helping us to understand the cultural practices and customs of the past.