Stanley Abe received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His field of research is Chinese Buddhist art. He is now developing a critical study of the construction of a history of Buddhist art in China, Japan, Europe, and the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This study pays special attention to the collecting, sale, and movement of objects, museum practices, aesthetic theory, and forms of knowledge organized by the disciplines of art history, ethnography, and religious studies in the context of colonialism and an international art market.