"My dissertation examines the interaction between global political-economic transformations and changing concepts of Chinese art in the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the porcelain from the renowned "porcelain city," Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province of southeast China. Jingdezhen has been the center of world porcelain production since the thirteenth century. Although Jingdezhen's porcelain industries experienced tremendous changes and upheaval during the nineteenth century- including expanding overseas trade, decimation by the Taiping rebels in 1853, reinstatement of imperial patronage by the Qing Court during the Tongzhi Restoration - scholars of science, art, and Jingdezhen history alike rarely investigate this period. Contrary to scholarly consensus, the nineteenth century witnessed a surge in the production of texts and visual images detailing the aesthetics, technology, and manufacturing of Jingdezhen porcelain. This study focuses on the systemic production of knowledge about a material object - Jingdezhen chinaware - by tracing the global trajectories of key documents and visual images on porcelain that circulated within and across boundaries of such places as China, France, and Japan. I will highlight the circulation of such texts and visual images at crucial historical junctures of the nineteenth century, concentrating on periods of industrialization, inter-state conflict, and changing trade patterns. Thus this project will attempt to articulate the global and political processes that negotiate and re-position an object's materiality--specifically the materiality of Jingdezhen porcelain--in relation to its visual and textual aspects. By historicizing the discourse and practices of a specific object of trade and art, especially one that was and remains closely associated with a particular place and culture, I examine how concepts of self and other find material embodiment through representative objects of culture and exchange."

Ming Qing Jingde zhen cheng shi jing ji yan jiu 明清景德鎮城市經濟硏究 / Liang Miaotai 梁淼泰 

Includes bibliographical references.

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景德镇在中国素有“瓷都”之称。本书以明清时期景德镇的瓷业为中心，探讨景德镇城市经济的形成、发展过程及其规律.

Table of contents: 

上 篇 景德镇
第一章 景德镇历史概论（唐——清前期）
第二章 明代后期景德镇御器厂管理形式的变化
1．明代后期景德镇御器厂匠役制度的变化
2．明代后期景德镇御器厂管理形式的变化
第三章 明代后期景德镇制瓷业中的资本主义
第四章 清代景德镇御窑厂的雇役经济管理形式
1．清代景德镇御窑厂的雇役经济管理形式的确立
2．清代景德镇御窑厂的雇役匠制
3．清代景德镇御窑厂的窑工银
4．清代景德镇御窑厂次色瓷器变价
5．清代景德镇官、民窑关系的变化
第五章 清代景德镇的民营瓷业
1．清代景德镇民窑瓷器产值的估计
2．分工精细 资本微薄
3．清代景德镇一处炉寸窑号的收支盈利
4．清代景德镇民窑的雇工
5．行帮控制
第六章 清代景德镇的商品流通额和商人
中 篇 浮梁的农村
第一章 浮梁的农林商品
1．浮梁的农林商品
2．浮梁农村居民与农林商品
第二章 窑里的釉土生产
第三章 浮梁的市街
第四章 浮梁稳定的封建土地占有关系
第五章 浮梁的庄仆制
第六章 景德镇与浮梁农村经济
下 篇 景德镇经济与邻近各县
第一章 景德镇经济与饶州府属各县
第二章 景德镇经济与婺源、祁门
第三章 景德镇经济和都昌县东乡
第四章 景德镇地区经济