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
1 - The Shard Market of Jingdezhen
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
Beginning with the shard market, held weekly in the city of Jingdezhen, this chapter explores the enduring attraction of locally made ceramics, even in their broken form. The objects for sale here fragments of porcelain objects made over the centuries in Jingdezhen point to the historical importance of what was manufactured here between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries as much as to the contemporary value of fine porcelains made locally for the imperial court. The manufacture of ceramics in Jingdezhen has attracted scholars working in many different disciplines; this chapter presents some of that scholarship but takes the research in new directions, drawing on the historical record, visual representations, objects and the records of administrators and visitors in Jingdezhen. The chapter situates the methodology of the book between global and local history, and explains its focus on the movement of objects, people and ideas during the many centuries in which Jingdezhen flourished. The shard market can only be explained by situating it in its historical context.
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- The City of Blue and WhiteChinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World, pp. 1 - 17Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020