1st Edition
Picturing Commerce in and from the East Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800
Edited By Tamara H. Bentley
Copyright 2019
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illuminates trade ties within East Asia, and from East Asia outwards, in the years 1550 to 1800. While not encyclopedic, the selected topics greatly advance our sense of this trade picture. Throughout the book, multi-part trade structures are excavated; the presence of European... Read more
List of plates and figures, Acknowledgements, Chapter One: People and Things in Motion: The View from the East, Part I: CIRCUITS AND EXCHANGES, Part II: COMMODITIES, Part III: HYBRID AESTHETICS, Index
Biography
Tamara H. Bentley is Professor of Asian Art History at Colorado College in the United States. She has published a book on the Chinese 17th century painter and printmaker Chen Hongshou, and she also writes about art and international trade.
