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. ...(展开全部)

【魅貨：近代早期跨太平洋貿易的中國絲綢，1500-1700年】 1573年，由兩艘馬尼拉大帆船運載的12綑中國 ＃絲綢 抵達新西班牙。此種跨太平洋絲綢貿易的產生與隨後的快速發展，反映出全球交流網絡的最終樣態。《魅貨：近代早期跨太平洋貿易的中國絲綢，1500-1700年》（An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700）是首部聚焦於近代早期16至17世紀中國出口絲綢至新西班牙的英文著作，對兩國養蠶業的發展、絲綢時尚品的廣泛流行與政府對絲綢使用上的管理規範做出對比。

【魅貨：近代早期跨太平洋貿易的中國絲綢，1500-1700年】 1573年，由兩艘馬尼拉大帆船運載的12綑中國 ＃絲綢 抵達新西班牙。此種跨太平洋絲綢貿易的產生與隨後的快速發展，反映出全球交流網絡的最終樣態。《魅貨：近代早期跨太平洋貿易的中國絲綢，1500-1700年》（An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700）是首部聚焦於近代早期16至17世紀中國出口絲綢至新西班牙的英文著作，對兩國養蠶業的發展、絲綢時尚品的廣泛流行與政府對絲綢使用上的管理規範做出對比。

In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchants who traded there. She follows the histories of three merchant families from various social ranks who conducted trade in Siberia for well over a century. These include the Filat'evs, who were among Russia's most illust...(展开全部)

In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchants who traded there. She follows the histories of three merchant families from various social ranks who conducted trade in Siberia for well over a century. These include the Filat'evs, who were among Russia's most illust...(展开全部)

We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chinese porcelains. Many of these were made in the kilns in and surrounding Jingdezhen. Found in almost every part of the world, Jingdezhen's porcelains had a far-reaching impact on g...(展开全部)

The early history of the maritime trade of China had been largely studied (at the time of this 1954 study) from the Western point of view, that is, as the eastern terminal point of a trade carried and dominated by Indians, Persians and Arabs. This had also been true of the early history of Southeast Asia. Historians, both of China and of Southeast Asia, had seen the trade mainl...(展开全部)

Examines the various features of Chinese trade across southeast Asia and as far west as Indian and Ceylon from about 211 BC to the founding of the Sung dynasty in 960 AD. Looks especially at the economic background and the Chinese imperial and regional attitudes toward it, and at political struggles between Chinese and other people and among themselves. First published as the J...(展开全部)

This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through a wide panoramic review of imperial encounters between Europeans (including the Portuguese, French, ...(展开全部)

This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through a wide panoramic review of imperial encounters between Europeans (including the Portuguese, French, ...(展开全部)