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Behind The Painting By A.C. Littleton In Shanghai, Academy Of Accounting Historians, James L. Chan
Behind The Painting By A.C. Littleton In Shanghai, Academy Of Accounting Historians, James L. Chan
Accounting Historians Notebook
On June 2, 2015, I was given a tour of the China Accounting Museum (opened in November 2013) at the Lixin School of Accounting in Shanghai. In its International Hall, I came face to face with an oil painting by A.C. Littleton, “my” Littleton. Perhaps in a breach of protocol, I requested my host, Professor Song Xiaoming, to take the painting down from the wall to verify the authenticity of my claim. “There is a word ‘Wood’ on the backside,” I told him. He obliged: sure enough, inscribed in pencil were the words “after Robert Wood”. I explained that Littleton …