The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World

ISBN-13: 9781108499958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 354 str.

Anne (University of Warwick) Gerritsen

Opis

A compelling examination of the ultimate global commodity, blue and white porcelain, from kiln to consumers across the globe.

Recenzje

'This is a beautifully written book …' Michael Yonan, Art History

Spis treści

1. The shard market of Jingdezhen; 2. City of imperial choice: Jingdezhen, 1000–1200; 3. Circulations of white; 4. From Cizhou to Jizhou: the long history of the emergence of blue and white porcelain; 5. From Jizhou to Jingdezhen in the fourteenth century: the emergence of blue and white and the circulations of people and things; 6. Blue and white porcelain and the fifteenth-century world; 7. The city of blue and white: visualizing space in Ming Jingdezhen, 1500–1600; 8. Anxieties over resources in sixteenth-century Jingdezhen; 9. Skilled hands: managing human resources and skill in the sixteenth-century imperial kilns; 10. Material circulations in the sixteenth century; 11. Local and global in Jingdezhen's long seventeenth century; 12. Epilogue: fragments of a global past.