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7 - The City of Blue and White: Visualizing Space in Ming Jingdezhen, 1500–1600

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

Anne Gerritsen
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University of Warwick
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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 White
Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World
, pp. 134 - 152
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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