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The Silk Road is also known as the Road of Lacquerware . This book starts with the liquid called "big lacquer" that flows out of the oriental lacquer tree. Focusing on the splendid Chinese lacquerware culture, this book explores cultural issues related to the lacquer civilization of the Silk Road. It specifically describes the origin, development, and global dissemination of Chinese lacquer culture, showing the infinite charm of Chinese lacquer civilization and its global identity. It also indicates the spillover effect and coupling mechanism of lacquerware culture on the ancient Silk Road.
List of contents
Prelude.- Chapter 1: The Road of Colored Lacquerware.- Chapter 2: Cultural Exchange and Spillover Maritime Transport and Its Expansion.- Chapter 3: Various Export Routes.- Chapter 4: Identity and Status.- Lacquer in the Han and Tang Dynasties: The Aesthetic Tension of Lacquerware.- Chapter 5: Exportation of Han and Tang Lacquerware.- Chapter 6: Lacquerware Trade during the Flourishing Han and Tang Dynasties.- Chapter 7: Lacquerware Trade in Han and Tang Literature.- chapter 8: Foreign Impressions of Han and Tang Lacquerware.- chapter 9: Overseas Spread of Han and Tang Lacquerware Culture.- chapter 10: Infiltration and Repercussions.- Shibo Si Administration and Foreign Merchants: Introduction of Song Dynasty Lacquerware Culture into Regional Societies.- Chapter 11: Exportation of Lacquerware in the Song Dynasty.- Chapter 12: Trade of Lacquerware under the Shibo Si Administration in the Song Dynasty.- chapter 13: Record of Song Dynasty Lacquerware Trade in Literature.- chapter 14: Foreign Impressions of Song Dynasty Lacquerware.- chapter 15: Infiltration of Song Dynasty Lacquerware Culture into Regional Societies.- chapter 16: Assimilation and Embeddedness.- Shibo Tijusi Administration: Organized Lacquerware Trade in the Yuan Dynasty.- chapter 17: Exportation of Lacquerware in the Yuan Dynasty.- Chapter 18: Foreign Trade of Lacquerware under the Shibo Tijusi Administration in the Yuan Dynasty.- Chapter 19: Records of Lacquerware Trade in Daoyi Zhilüe.- Chapter 20: Marco Polo s Remarks on Chinese Lacquerware.- Chapter 21: Interaction of Yuan Dynasty Lacquerware and Overseas Societies and Cultures.- Chapter 22: Transformation and Reinvention.- Trade of Lacquerware in the Ming Dynasty: From Zheng He s Westward Voyages to Matteo Ricci s Visit to China.- Chapter 23: Exportation of Lacquerware to the West during the Ming Dynasty.- Chapter 24: Lacquerware Trade during the Zheng He Era in the Ming Dynasty.- chapter 25: Records of Lacquerware Trade in The History of Ming.- Chapter 26: Matteo Ricci s Impressions of Chinese Lacquerware.- Chapter 27: Overseas Spread of Ming Dynasty Lacquerware Culture in Eurasian and Latin American Societies.- Chapter 28: Acceptance and Coupling.- Lacquerware in European and American Life: Growing Global Circulation.- Chapter 29: Qing Dynasty Lacquerware Exported to Europe and America.- Chapter 30: Lacquerware Trade in the Ming Dynasty under Maritime Prohibitions.- Chapter 31: Lacquerware Trade Mentioned in Haiguo Tuzhi.- chapter 32 : Euro-American Public s Aesthetic Imagination of Qing Dynasty Lacquerware.- Chapter 33: Qing Dynasty Lacquerware in Europe and America.- Chapter 34: Mutual Influence and Circulation.- Conclusion.
About the author
Pan Tianbo, specialist in lacquerware research, keynote speaker of “Lecture Room”, professor of Jiangsu Normal University. Specialized in lacquerer culture, history of arts and craft as well as history of design, good at describing lacquerware civilization from global perspective. Author of Chinese Lacquerers that Affect World Civilization, Study on Lacquerware Culture in Han Dynasty, Global Exchanges of Lacquer, etc.
Summary
The “Silk Road” is also known as the “Road of Lacquerware”. This book starts with the liquid called "big lacquer" that flows out of the oriental lacquer tree. Focusing on the splendid Chinese lacquerware culture, this book explores cultural issues related to the lacquer civilization of the Silk Road. It specifically describes the origin, development, and global dissemination of Chinese lacquer culture, showing the infinite charm of Chinese lacquer civilization and its global identity. It also indicates the spillover effect and coupling mechanism of lacquerware culture on the ancient Silk Road.
