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Keynote Address: Jonathan Hay, New York University. The Effects of Imperial Collecting on the Transmission of Chinese Paintings. Throughout Chinese history the collection of art, calligraphy, and poetry was a social activity among the culturally refined, providing the framework and the pretext for yaji, the "elegant gatherings" of the literati. Collectors, such as the Yeh family, have played an important role in gathering, evaluating and disseminating Chinese art. The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, and the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, jointly sponsored this conference on the collection of Chinese art, in conjunction with the exhibit The Elegant Gathering: The Yeh Family Collection....