EurAsian Matters

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. EurAsian Matters: An Introduction

      • Monica Juneja, Anna Grasskamp

      Pages 3-33

3. Objects Easily Forgotten

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Around the Globe: The Material Culture of Cantonese Round Tables in High-Qing China

      • Kyoungjin Bae

      Pages 37-55

   3. Unknown Transcultural Objects: Turned Ivory Works by the European Rose Engine Lathe in the Eighteenth-Century Qing Court

      • Ching-fei Shih

      Pages 57-76

   4. Transcultural Lenses: Wrapping the Foreignness for Sale in the History of Lenses

      • Kaijun Chen

      Pages 77-98

4. Transcultural Objectifications of Nature

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. From La Flèche to Beijing: The Transcultural Moment of Jesuit Garden Spaces

      • Lianming Wang

      Pages 101-123

   3. Domesticating the Global and Materializing the Unknown: A Study of the Album of Beasts at the Qianlong Court

      • Yu-chih Lai

      Pages 125-171

5. Ceramic Matters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Delftware and the Domestication of Chinese Porcelain

      • Dawn Odell

      Pages 175-202

   3. A Global Crayfish: The Transcultural Travels of a Chinese Ming Dynasty Ceramic Ewer

      • Eva Ströber

      Pages 203-220

   4. The Reception and Value of Chinese Porcelain in Habsburg Spain

      • Cinta Krahe

      Pages 221-235

6. Postscripts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

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   2. Transcultural Objects, Movements, and Bodies

      • Anne Gerritsen

      Pages 239-246

   3. Looking INTO the Transcultural Object

      • Marta Ajmar

      Pages 247-253

The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. Its approach connects material culture with art history, curation, technologies and practices of making. A central dimension of the case studies collected here is the mobility of objects between Europe and China and the transformations that unfold as a result of their transcultural lives. Many of the objects studied here are relatively unknown or understudied. The stories they recount suggest new ways of thinking about space, cultural geographies and the complex and often contradictory association of power and culture. These studies of transcultural objects can suggest pathways for museum experts by uncovering the multi-layered identities and temporalities of objects that can no longer be labelled as located in single regions. It is also addressed to students of art history, of European and Chinese studies and scholars of consumer culture.

« This eagerly awaited volume offers deep and extensive insights into the fast-growing field of material culture studies. Its fresh approach to Eurasian objects and materialities will serve  as useful reading for all scholars interested in transcultural and global studies. A very helpful introductory essay. »

 

Sabine du Crest, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Former Fellow, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

 

• Consumer culture
• Early modern China
• Global art history
• Material culture
• Transcultural objects
• Cultural mobility
• Materiality of objects

• Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  Anna Grasskamp

• Cluster of Excellence Asia & Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

  Monica Juneja

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