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Porcelain for the emperor : manufacture and technocracy in Qing China by Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Kai Jun Chen; Kai Jun Chen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"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. Through a detailed study of porcelain manufacture loosely structured around the career of the Manchu bannerman Tang Ying, who supervised ceramic production for the emperor, this volume considers the 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. The volume draws on first-hand archaeological evidence from Jingdezhen, the foremost site of porcelain manufacture, as well as the voluminous Archive of the Imperial Handicraft Workshops to investigate a regional factory, the imperial design system, technological treatises, experiments deployed in porcelain manufacture, and court regulations. Grounded in methods for studying science and technology in society, as well as literary and art history, it contributes to scho

Who reads Porcelain for the emperor : manufacture and technocracy in Qing China?

Author

Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Kai Jun Chen; Kai Jun Chen

Publisher

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780295750835

Category

nonfiction