Chinese Trade Porcelains: International Commodities in the Early Phase of Globalization

Five hundred years ago, at the height of the Age of Discovery, Europeans flocked to the Orient, and plunged the Ming Empire into the globalization matrix. The Chinese trade porcelain thus entered its golden age and caused marvelous ebb and flow in the globalised commercial world. Integrating the exhibits from "Enchanting Expeditions: Chinese Trade Porcelains across the Globe" with textual records as well as images from history, this talk aims to reconstruct the design, manufacture, transport, and sale processes of Chinese export porcelain and their use and impact in overseas markets. Join the speaker to travel back in time and across the globe to see how Ming and Qing porcelain came to dominate the international market and how it profoundly impacted the porcelain industry of the world.

Dr. Wang Guanyu is the Associate Curator (Antiquities) of the Art Museum, CUHK. She focuses on the research of the production, trade and consumption of Chinese porcelains during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the interactions of material civilization between the East and West in the early globalization. Her recent exhibition "Enchanting Expeditions: Chinese Trade Porcelains across the Globe" is on display in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Art Museum.

Information of the exhibition: http://www.artmuseum.cuhk.edu.hk/en/exhibition/current/detail/61

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