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Plate VIIA Curtains: Top: Indo-Pacific glass beads from the Yongning Temple (photo: An Jiayao). Bottom: Tamasudare reproduction (courtesy: Kanazawa Bunko Museum). Plate VIIB Curtains: Curtain of bamboo tubes and Job’s tears, Beijing, 2008 (all photos by Valerie Hector unless otherwise indicated). Plate VIIC Curtains: Top: The Job’s tears in Plate VIIB. Bottom: Curtain detail showing seedpods, plastic tubes, and suspension bar (photo: Sanders Visual Images). Plate VIID Curtains: Top: The lobed seedpods and plastic beads of a Beijing curtain, 2008. Bottom: Bead door curtain of seeds and plastic tubes, Beijing, 2013. Plate VIIIA Curtains: Top: The seeds and green plastic tubes of the curtain in Plate VIID bottom. Bottom: Rolled paper beads, Job’s tears, and plastic tubes, Cuandixia, 2012. Plate VIIIB Curtains: Top: Folded-paper beads connected with paper clips. Bottom: Folded paper and biconical plastic beads, and Job’s tears. Both Cuandixia, 2012. Plate VIIIC Curtains: Top: Folded-paper bead curtains hanging in doorways, Cuandixia, 2012. Bottom: Star-shaped folded-paper beads and plastic tubes, Qufu, Shandong province, 2012. Plate VIIID Curtains: Curtain featuring geometric motifs and a rare netted valance, 20th century. Private collection (photo: Sanders Visual Images). Plate IXA Curtains: Detail of the netted valance of the geometric curtain. Plate IXB Curtains: Curtain featuring landscape motifs, 20th century. Private collection (photo: Sanders Visual Images). Plate IXC Curtains: Curtain featuring hybrid motifs, with a crane standing before a pine tree, 20th century (photo: Sanders Visual Images). Plate IXD Curtains: Top: The beads and pendants at the bottom of the crane/pine curtain. Bottom: Box of drawn glass tubes (courtesy: Robert K. Liu). (Photos: Sanders Visual Images). Plate XA Curtains: Top: Knotted strands with drawn tubular and wound oblate glass beads, probably Chinese, 20th century (courtesy: Jamey Allen). Bottom: Peacock curtain, Boshan, 2012. Plate XB Curtains: Top: Detail of the peacock curtain. Bottom: Large yellow curtain of drawn glass beads, Boshan, 2012. Plate XC Curtains: Prof. Peter Haslund with Liu Fengwei’s mother in front of the Liu home with its colorful plastic curtain, Shijiazhuang, Shandong province, 1984 (courtesy: Peter Haslund). Plate XD Curtains: Reproduction of the plastic faceted-bead curtain of the Hutong Pizza restaurant, Xicheng district, Beijing, 2012. Private collection (photo: Sanders Visual Images).
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