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
7 - The City of Blue and White: Visualizing Space in Ming Jingdezhen, 1500–1600
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
The chapter begins with an exploration of the geo-physical environment that shaped Jingdezhen’s past, followed by a discussion of Jingdezhen’s place within the administrative structures of the Ming empire. From Jingdezhen’s place in the administrative organization of the empire, the regional environment, and the kiln locations that make up the Jingdezhen kiln site complex, the chapter moves to the spatial lay-out and organization of the imperial kilns within that complex, and ends with the space of a single workshop within the imperial kiln. The mountains and rivers, the offices of the county administration, the office buildings of the imperial kiln, and the numerous workspaces all coexisted in this sixteenth-century moment. These features were not located in physically different spaces, but assert their own order over the space, thereby representing different visions of the space. The workers in each workshop were dependent on the production processes in the other workshops, and overall, their work formed part of the way in which the imperial state organised its procurement of porcelain. The imperial kiln formed one small part of the administration of the whole empire.
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- The City of Blue and WhiteChinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World, pp. 134 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020