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Title Picturing commerce in and from the East Asian maritime circuits, 1550-1800 / edited by Tamara H. Bentley.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Visual and material culture, 1300-1700
Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. People and things in motion: the view from the East / Tamara H. Bentley -- Part I. Circuits and exchanges. 2. Maritime trading world of East Asia from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries / Richard von Glahn -- 3. Junk trade and Hokkien merchant networks in maritime Asia, 1570-1760 / James K. Chin -- 4. Trade activities of sixteenth-century Christian daimyo Ōtomo Sōrin / Hiroko Nishida -- Part II. Commodities. 5. From global to local: the diaspora of Asian decorative arts in colonial Latin America / Donna Pierce -- 6. Trans-Pacific connections: contraband mercury trade in the sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries / Angela Schottenhammer -- 7. "The features are esteem'd very just": Chinese unfired clay portrait figures of Westerners / William R. Sargent -- Part III. Hybrid aesthetics. 8. Global keyboard: music, visual forms, and maritime trade in the early modern era / Victoria Lindsay Levine -- 9. Barbarian tropes framed anew: three Qing dynasty Chinese lacquer screens of Europeans hunting / Tamara H. Bentley -- 10. Chinese porcelain, the East India Company, and British cultural identity, 1600-1800 / Stacey Pierson.
Summary Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illuminates trade ties within East Asia, and from East Asia outwards, in the years 1550 to 1800. While not encyclopedic, the selected topics greatly advance our sense of this trade picture. Throughout the book, multi-part trade structures are excavated; the presence of European powers within the Asian trade nexus features as part of this narrative. Visual goods are highlighted, including lacquerwares, musical instruments, Chinese bronze coins, unfired ceramic portrait figurines, and Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian ceramic vessels. These essays underscore the significance of Asian industries producing multiples, and the rhetorical charge of these goods, shifting in meaning as they move. Building reverberations between merchant networks and the look of the objects themselves, this richly-illustrated book brings to light the Asian trade engine powering the early modern visual cultures of East and Southeast Asia, the American colonies, and Europe.
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Subject East Asia -- Commerce -- History.
East Asia.
Commerce.
History.
Material culture -- East Asia.
Material culture.
Artisans -- East Asia.
Artisans.
East Asia -- Commerce -- History -- Pictorial works.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject Material culture -- East Asia -- Pictorial works.
Artisans -- East Asia -- Pictorial works.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Illustrated works.
Illustrated works.
Added Author Bentley, Tamara Heimarck, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Picturing commerce in and from the East Asian maritime circuits, 1550-1800. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2019 9789462984677 (OCoLC)1079875763
ISBN 9789048535446 (electronic book)
9048535441 (electronic book)
9789462984677 (cloth)
9462984670 (cloth)