Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of contents 7
3. List of plates and figures 9
4. Acknowledgements 19
5. 1. People and things in motion: the view from the East 21
6. Part I. Circuits and exchanges
7. 2. The maritime trading world of East Asia from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries 55
8. 3. The junk trade and Hokkien merchant networks in maritime Asia, 1570–1760 83
9. 4. The trade activities of sixteenth-century Christian daimyo Ōtomo Sōrin 113
10. Part II. Commodities
11. 5. From global to local: the diaspora of Asian decorative arts in colonial Latin America 127
12. 6. Trans-Pacific connections: contraband mercury trade in the sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries 159
13. 7. “The Features are Esteem’d very just”: Chinese unfired clay portrait figures of Westerners 195
14. Part III. Hybrid aesthetics
15. 8. The global keyboard: music, visual forms, and maritime trade in the early modern era 223
16. 9. Barbarian tropes framed anew: three Qing dynasty Chinese lacquer screens of Europeans hunting 247
17. 10. Chinese porcelain, the East India Company, and British cultural identity, 1600–1800 275
18. Index 293