Download or read book Porcelain for the Emperor written by Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Kai Jun Chen and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) court. Porcelain for the Emperor charts the career of bannerman Tang Ying, a technocrat in the porcelain industry, through the first half of the eighteenth century to uncover the wider role of specialist officials in producing the technological knowledge and distinctive artistic forms that were essential to cultural policies of the Chinese state. Through fiscal management, technical experimentation, and design, these imperial technocrats facilitated rationalized manufacturing in precapitalist and preindustrial society. Drawing on museum collections and firsthand archaeological evidence, as well as the voluminous Archive of the Imperial Workshops, this book contributes new insights to scholarship on global empires and the history of science and technology in China. Readers will learn how the imperial state's intervention in industry left a lingering imprint on modern China through its modes of labor-intensive production, the division of domestic and foreign markets, and, above all, a technocratic culture of centralization.
Download or read book What the Emperor Built written by Aurelia Campbell and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor (r. 1402–24) gained renown for constructing Beijing’s magnificent Forbidden City, directing ambitious naval expeditions, and creating the world’s largest encyclopedia. What the Emperor Built is the first book-length study devoted to the architectural projects of a single Chinese emperor. Focusing on the imperial palaces in Beijing, a Daoist architectural complex on Mount Wudang, and a Buddhist temple on the Sino-Tibetan frontier, Aurelia Campbell demonstrates how the siting, design, and use of Yongle’s palaces and temples helped cement his authority and legitimize his usurpation of power. Campbell offers insight into Yongle’s sense of empire—from the far-flung locations in which he built, to the distant regions from which he extracted construction materials, and to the use of tens of thousands of craftsmen and other laborers. Through his constructions, Yongle connected himself to the divine, interacted with his subjects, and extended imperial influence across space and time. Spanning issues of architectural design and construction technologies, this deft analysis reveals remarkable advancements in timber-frame construction and implements an art-historical approach to examine patronage, audience, and reception, situating the buildings within their larger historical and religious contexts.
Download or read book Chinese Ceramics written by Rose Kerr and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 1986 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Collector s Vision written by Stacey Pierson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emperor s Broken China written by Regina Krahl and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Porcelain written by O. du Sartel and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of porcelain manufacturing is linked closely to China and its history, appearing in the 7th century when it became an important symbol of royalty or high status. The masterpieces of the genre featured in this book range from simple tea bowls and fantastic vases to hair ornaments, figurines and snuff boxes with intricate, multi-coloured designs. The presentations of these fragile objects are accompanied by an informative outline of the history of Chinese porcelain. This delicate material attracted and continues to attract the attention of art lovers throughout the world.
Download or read book Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain written by Hepburn Myrtle and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2nd August to 28th September 1980.
Download or read book The Emperor s Lost Treasure written by Wing Meng Ho and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The porcelain made for the Emperor Chenghua is the most highly prized by collectors of Ming china. Chenghua died in 1487 and very few objects from that period have survived. This scholarly account of Chenghua ware discusses also some collections which while different in several ways from the authenticated artefacts are held by the author to come from the same source. The many colour illustrations are a delight.
Download or read book Artisans in Early Imperial China written by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early China is best known for the dazzling material artifacts it has left behind. These terracotta figures, gilt-bronze lamps, and other material remnants of the Chinese past unearthed by archaeological excavations are often viewed without regard to the social context of their creation, yet they were made by individuals who contributed greatly to the foundations of early Chinese culture. With Artisans in Early Imperial China, Anthony Barbieri-Low combines historical, epigraphic, and archaeological analysis to refocus our gaze from the glittering objects and monuments of China onto the men and women who made them. Taking readers inside the private workshops, crowded marketplaces, and great palaces, temples, and tombs of early China, Barbieri-Low explores the lives and working conditions of artisans, meticulously documenting their role in early Chinese society and the economy. First published in 2007, winner of top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and the International Convention of Asia Scholars, and now back in print, Artisans in Early Imperial China will appeal to anyone interested in Chinese history, as well as to scholars of comparative social history, labor history, and Asian art history.
Download or read book Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth Century Europe written by Kristel Smentek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated connoisseur, drawings collector, print dealer, book publisher and authority on the art of antiquity, Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was a pivotal figure in the eighteenth-century European art world. Focusing on the trajectory of Mariette?s career, this book examines the material practices and social networks through which connoisseurs forged the idea of art as an object of empirical and historical analysis. Drawing on significant unpublished archival material as well as on histories of science, publishing, collecting and display, this book shows how Mariette and his colleagues? practices of classification and interpretation of the graphic arts gave rise to new conceptions of artistic authorship and to a history of art that transcended the biographies of individual artists. To follow Mariette?s career through the eighteenth century is to see that art was consolidated as a specialized category of intellectual inquiry-and that style emerged as its structuring analytic device-in the overlapping spaces of the collector?s cabinet, the connoisseur?s portfolio and the dealer?s shop.
Download or read book A History of Pottery and Porcelain written by Joseph Marryat and published by London, J. Murray. This book was released on 1857 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Description of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain written by Yan Zhu and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emperor Qianlong written by Mark C. Elliott and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This accessible account describes the personal struggles and public drama surrounding one of the major political figures of the early modern age, with special consideration given to the emperor's efforts to rise above ethnic divisions and to encompass the political and religious traditions of Han Chinese, Mongols, Tibetans, Turks, and other peoples of his realm." From Amazon.
Download or read book How to Identify Old Chinese Porcelain written by Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Porcelain Tower Or Nine Stories of China written by Thomas Henry Sealy and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories are uninformed, racist in nature, and accompanied by racist caricatures.
Download or read book A Manual of Pottery and Porcelain for American Collectors written by John H. Treadwell and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emperor s Broken China written by Regina Krahl and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
