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, paintings, prints, musical instruments, textiles, ivory sculptures, unfired ceramic portrait figurines, and Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and SoutheastAsian 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. Everyday commodities are treated as well; for example, the trans-Pacific trade in contraband mercury, used in silver refinement, is spelled out in detail. Building reverberations between merchant networks, trade goods, 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.
- Title Page
- Table of contents
- List of plates and figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1. People and things in motion
- The view from the East
- East Asian maritime trade: some key dynamics
- The approach taken in this volume
- Chinese Ming trade in light of earlier developments
- European arrivals in the Asian circuits
- Visual and political dimensions of Japanese foreign trade
- Some of the complexities of trade dynamics: ceramics
- Some of the complexities of trade dynamics: prints
- Some of the complexities of trade dynamics: lacquerwares
- Some of the complexities of trade dynamics: textiles
- Modeling the early modern economic engine
- Bibliography
- About the author
- Part I
- Circuits and exchanges
- 2. The maritime trading world of East Asia from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries
- The first phase of East Asian maritime commerce: tenth to thirteenth centuries
- Reorientation of maritime trade in the fourteenth century
- The revival of East Asian maritime trade
- The sixteenth-century transformation of the East Asian maritime world
- Maritime East Asia in the seventeenth century
- Bibliography
- About the author
- 3. The junk trade and Hokkien merchant networks in maritime Asia, 1570–1760
- The Hokkien trade with Kyushu
- The Hokkien trade with Manila
- The Hokkien trade with Bantam
- The Hokkien trade with Batavia
- The Hokkien networks
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- About the author
- 4. The trade activities of sixteenth-century Christian daimyo Ōtomo Sōrin
- Translated by Joan E. Ericson
- The Ōtomo clan and the Bungo Funai castle
- Trade with Hakata merchants
- Ōtomo Sōrin and trade with Ming China
- The meaning of the Yuan blue-flowered porcelain excavated from Funai
- Bibliography
- About the author
- Part II
- Commodities
- 5. From global to local
- The diaspora of Asian decorative arts in colonial Latin America
- Types of Asian goods in colonial Latin America
- Asian goods in colonial homes
- Bibliography
- About the author
- 6. Trans-Pacific connections
- Contraband mercury trade in the sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries
- The Asia-Pacific macro-region and the interest in mercury
- The China-Macau-Japan connection
- The New Spain (Mexico)-Philippines-Japan connection
- The China-Philippines-Mexico-Peru connection
- Chinese mercury for New Spain and Peru?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- About the author
- 7. “The Features are Esteem’d very just”
- Chinese unfired clay portrait figures of Westerners
- Construction
- Portrait figures of Westerners
- Period I: 1717–25
- Period II: 1731–59
- Figures attributed to the 1750s
- Period III: Chitqua in London, 1769–72
- Period IV: the late eighteenth century, including Tyune, an “image maker”
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- About the author
- Part III
- Hybrid aesthetics
- 8. The global keyboard
- Music, visual forms, and maritime trade in the early modern era
- Music, visual forms, and global trade
- Keyboard instruments and maritime trade
- Early keyboard music in China
- Early keyboard music in India
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- About the author
- 9. Barbarian tropes framed anew
- Three Qing dynasty Chinese lacquer screens of Europeans hunting
- The trade routes for luxury lacquer screens
- Deciphering the wide-ranging visual citations in the three hunt screens
- Competition and the circulation of motifs in export lacquers
- Comparing the rhetoric of ambivalence in two works
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- About the author
- 10. Chinese porcelain, the East India Company, and British cultural identity, 1600–1800
- Private commissions and armorial wares
- Dining and drinking
- Tea and porcelain
- Popular visual culture and politics
- From China but not in China
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- About the author
- Index
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