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1 online resource (xv, 332 pages) |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Shard Market of Jingdezhen -- Arguments -- Contexts -- Contents -- 2 City of Imperial Choice: Jingdezhen, 1000-1200 -- Lan Pu's Version of Jingdezhen's History -- Ceramics Manufactures in the Tenth Century -- Ceramics Production in Northern China, 1000-1200 -- Ceramics Production in Southern China, 1000-1200 -- 3 Circulations of White -- The Global Movement of White Porcelain in the Long Thirteenth Century |
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The Appearance of a Different Kind of White -- The Overseas Trade in White Wares -- 4 From Cizhou to Jizhou: The Long History of the Emergence of Blue and White Porcelain -- Cizhou and Cizhou-type Ceramics -- The Importance of Jizhou -- 5 From Jizhou to Jingdezhen in the Fourteenth Century: The Emergence of Blue and White and the Circulations of People and Things -- The Song-Yuan Transition and the Jizhou Kilns -- Explaining Decline in Jizhou -- Fourteenth-Century Jingdezhen -- Conclusion -- 6 Blue and White Porcelain and the Fifteenth-Century World -- Mapping the Fifteenth-Century World |
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The Indian Ocean -- A Late Fourteenth-Century Manuscript from Baghdad -- A Fifteenth-Century Ritual Manual from Joseon Korea -- A Fifteenth-Century Shipwreck in the Philippines -- A Bowl with Fruit in Renaissance Italy -- 7 The City of Blue and White: Visualizing Space in Ming Jingdezhen, 1500-1600 -- Physical Space -- Jingdezhen in the Administrative Space of the Sixteenth Century -- Manufacturing Space -- Imperial Space -- Workspace in the Cobalt-Painting Division -- 8 Anxieties over Resources in Sixteenth-Century Jingdezhen -- Fuel for Firing the Kilns -- Tools for Equipping the Workshops |
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Cobalt for Adding Blue -- Recipes for Adding Colour -- Packing and Storing: The Final Stages of Jingdezhen Production -- 9 Skilled Hands: Managing Human Resources and Skill in the Sixteenth-Century Imperial Kilns -- Who Were the Workers in Jingdezhen? -- How Much Were the Workers Paid? -- The Division of Labour -- Imperial Kilns, Private Kilns and the Flows of Skilled Labour -- Managing the Workforce -- 10 Material Circulations in the Sixteenth Century -- Communities of Knowing and Making -- Beyond the Local -- The Role of the Europeans in the Sixteenth Century -- Concluding Thoughts |
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11 Local and Global in Jingdezhen's Long Seventeenth Century -- The 'Absence' of Jingdezhen -- Tang Ying and the Question of Skill -- 12 Epilogue: Fragments of a Global Past -- Parallels between Past and Present -- Lessons for Writing Global History -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chinese porcelains. Many of these were made in the kilns in and surrounding Jingdezhen. Found in almost every part of the world, Jingdezhen's porcelains had a far-reaching impact on global consumption, which in turn shaped the local manufacturing processes. The imperial kilns of Jingdezhen produced ceramics for the court, while nearby private kilns manufactured for the global market. In this beautifully illustrated study, Anne Gerritsen asks how this kiln complex could manufacture such quality, quantity and variety. She explores how objects tell the story of the past, connecting texts with objects, objects with natural resources, and skilled hands with the shapes and designs they produced. Through the manufacture and consumption of Jingdezhen's porcelains, she argues, China participated in the early modern world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-319) and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Porcelain, Chinese -- China -- Jingdezhen -- History
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Porcelain, Chinese
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Porzellan
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Blue and white ware -- China.
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Porcelain, Chinese -- China -- Jingdezhen -- History.
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Porcelain industry -- China -- Jingdezhen -- History.
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China -- Jingdezhen
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China
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Jingdezhen (China) -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108753104 |
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1108753108 |
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