Gerritsen, Anne. (2009) Fragments of a global past : ceramics manufacture in Song-Yuan-Ming Jingdezhen. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol.52 (No.1). pp. 117-152. ISSN 0022-4995

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Abstract

This essay explores textual genres related to the production of ceramics in Jingdezhen, including maps, literati collections, the literature of connoisseurship, local gazetteers, and merchant manuals. An analysis of these genres brings the Chinese textual record of ceramics into sharper focus and reveals what has remained unwritten. Whereas European writings on Chinese ceramics from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries dwell on modes of manufacture in a global context, Chinese writers generally ignore matters of technology and commerce beyond the confines of the Chinese realm. These omissions emerge in part from the peculiarities of the genres within which these writings have been transmitted.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Ceramic industries -- China -- Jingdezhen -- History, Jingdezhen (China) -- History, China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279, China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368, China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers
ISSN:	0022-4995
Date:	2009
Volume:	Vol.52
Number:	No.1
Number of Pages:	36
Page Range:	pp. 117-152
Identification Number:	10.1163/156852009X405366
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/28211

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