Picturing Commerce in and from the East Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800 Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 / edited by Tamara H. Bentley.

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 tra...

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Other Authors: Bentley, Tamara Heimarck (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 7.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. People and things in motion: the view from the East / Tamara H. Bentley
  • 2. The maritime trading world of East Asia from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries / Richard von Glahn
  • 3. The junk trade and Hokkien merchant networks in maritime Asia, 1570-1760 / James K. Chin
  • 4. The trade activities of sixteenth-century Christian daimyo Ōtomo Sōrin / Hiroko Nishida
  • 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
  • 8. The 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.