Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History (PASPH)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“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)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Meha Priyadarshini is Fellow at the Sciences Po Europe-Asia Programme in Le Havre, France. Her research and teaching interests include global history, material culture studies, colonial Latin American history and art history. She earned her PhD from Columbia University and has held fellowships at the Getty Research Institute, the European University Institute and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico
Book Subtitle: The Material Worlds of an Early Modern Trade
Authors: Meha Priyadarshini
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66547-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66546-7Published: 31 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88268-0Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66547-4Published: 14 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-924X
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9258
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian History, Latin American History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Cultural History, Social History