Book contents
- The City of Blue and White
- The City of Blue and White
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Table
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Circulations of White
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2020
- The City of Blue and White
- The City of Blue and White
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Table
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter considers the spread of ceramics produced in the Chinese empire to destinations within Eurasia, East and Southeast Asia, and throughout the Indian Ocean during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It charts the circulation of Raozhou ceramics as they were traded through the region and far beyond, beginning to show the intricate ways in which local knowledge about making and selling things feeds into and is fed by global patterns of consumption. Moreover, it shows how the look and feel of Raozhou’s porcelain, or the materiality of these goods, changed during this period. To understand these changes, this chapter suggests, one has to consider both local factors, such as the availability of raw materials in the immediate vicinity of the kilns, and global factors, such as the desire for large vessels amongst consumers of porcelain in nomadic communities and in the Islamic worlds of Central Asia. The combination of both local and global factors is key in understanding the changes that occurred during this period.
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- The City of Blue and WhiteChinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World, pp. 39 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020