Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico
The Material Worlds of an Early Modern Trade
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Beschreibung
This book follows Chinese porcelain through the commodity chain, from its production in China to trade with Spanish Merchants in Manila, and to its eventual adoption by colonial society in Mexico. As trade connections increased in the early modern period, porcelain became an immensely popular and global product. This study focuses on one of the most exported objects, the guan. It shows how this porcelain jar was produced, made accessible across vast distances and how designs were borrowed and transformed into new creations within different artistic cultures. While people had increased access to global markets and products, this book argues that this new connectivity could engender more local outlooks and even heightened isolation in some places. It looks beyond the guan to the broader context of transpacific trade during this period, highlighting the importance and impact of Asian commodities in Spanish America.
Takes a local approach to a popular export product to explore the broader history of transpacific trade during the early modern period
Offers detailed accounts of several different sites of production, trade and consumption, from China to the Philippines and on to Mexico
Proposes a new perspective on the effect of increased connectivity between China and New Spain, charting both physical and demographic changes within cities and the isolation of other communities
Takes a local approach to a popular export product to explore the broader history of transpacific trade during the early modern period Offers detailed accounts of several different sites of production, trade and consumption, from China to the Philippines and on to Mexico Proposes a new perspective on the effect of increased connectivity between China and New Spain, charting both physical and demographic changes within cities and the isolation of other communities
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Meha Priyadarshini
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“Meha Priyadarshini’s Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico is structured as a spatial-commercial journey, presenting a ‘typical biography’ … of the world’s first ‘global brand’ (to use Craig Clunas’s oft-cited phrase). … Priyadarshini offers a number of microhistorical anecdotes and interpretations, which are one of the book’s great pleasures.” (Byron Ellsworth Hamann, caareviews.org, October 28, 2020)
“This compact, beautifully written study addresses that neglect, examining every aspect of the trade in a way that makes it essential reading for those interested in art history, material culture, global trade, and the Spanish settlement of the Philippines and Mexico. … An important aspect of this book is that, while it delves into the local—clearly illustrating its incorporation into the global, it also highlights disconnects in the chain of production, transportation, and consumption.” (Heather Dalton, Parergon, Vol. 37 (2), 2020)
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“This book about Chinese porcelain in Colonial Mexico does far more than situate a Chinese commodity in a Latin American context: it takes us on a global journey. Jingdezhen, Manila, Acapulco and Puebla—sites that are connected through the trade in porcelain—each allow very different local stories to be told: about artisanal skills and crab-like bodies, about packaging and over-loaded ships, about race and chocolate and Aztec legends. Accompanied by richly varied illustrations, these stories tell an impressive global history that makes an important argument not only about the centrality of the Pacific Ocean and Latin America in global history, but also about the key role of Asian goods in the formation of colonial Mexican identity. Insightful, wide-ranging, and a joy to read.” (Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick, UK)
“Priyadarshini’s’ compelling book offers a unique perspective on the transpacific exchange during the sterling age of the Manila Galleon through the ‘first global brand’ of the Modern Era. Connecting Jingdezhen with Puebla through consumer demand in the New World (i.e., how the guan became the chocolatero), Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico is an impactful contribution to scholarship on the Spanish empire and its multi-faceted relations across the Pacific Ocean.” (Edward R. Slack, Jr., Eastern Washington University, USA)
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