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BIBLIOGRAPHY

This is not an exhaustive bibliography on the different topics related to China and the previous chapters; more modestly, this bibliography reflects my readings and all the essays/books/articles I've fully read with interest and I would recommend to you.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

• ON THE HISTORY OF CERAMICS AND PORCELAIN IN CHINA
• ON THE HISTORY OF CHINESE PAINTING
• ON CHINESE CULTURE
• ON OTHER ASIAN CULTURES
• ON CHINA AND THE EUROPEAN WEST
• CHINESE PORCLEAIN AND THE WEST
• ON THE EAST INDIA COMPANIES

ON THE HISTORY OF CERAMICS AND PORCELAIN IN CHINA

• Suzanne G. Valenstein (Research Curator of the Department of Asian Art, The MET, New York)

A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989 Revised and Enlarged Edition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US, distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York

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• Michael Sullivan, George Savage, Jerome Silbergeld

Chinese pottery, in "Encyclopedia Britannica".

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• Laurie E. Barnes (Elizabeth B. McGraw Curator of Chinese Art at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, US)

Yuan Dynasty Ceramics, in VV. AA., Chinese Ceramics From the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty, 2010, Yale University Press & Beijing Foreign Languages Press

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• Yang Guimei (Senior Researcher at the National Museum of China)

An illustrated Brief History of Chinese Porcelain, 2021, Shanghai Press, China / Better Link Press, New York, US

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• Jing Yang and Annika Waenerberg (University of Jyväskylä, Department of Art and Culture Studies, Finland)

Lohikäärmeen vuosi: Kiinan dynastioiden taidetta (The Year of the Dragon: Art from the Chinese Dynasties), Joensuu Art Museum, Finland, 2012

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• Anne Gerritsen and Stephen McDowall

Material Culture and the Other: European Encounters with Chinese Porcelain, ca. 1650-1800, in Journal of World History,  Vol. 23, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: GLOBAL CHINA (March 2012), published by University of Hawai'i Press

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• Regina Krahl (Specialist of Far Eastern ceramics, President of the Oriental Ceramic Society since 2012)

Ru. From a Japanese Collection, Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 2012

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• Tara Manser (Member of the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society)

Two Yuan Dynasty Qingbai Vases, in "Passage", May-June 2018

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• Oliver Watson (Emeritus Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the The Khalili Research Centre for the Art and the Material Culture of the Middle East, Oxford, UK) 

Chinese-Iranian Relations - XI. Mutual Influence of Chinese and Persian Ceramics, in "Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, 2015.

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• Wenxuan Wang, Jian Zhu, Jianxin Jiang, Changqing Xu, Shurong Wu, Li Guan, Zhaoxia Zhang, Menglei Wu, Jingnan Du (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, and Institute of Ancient Ceramic, Jingdezhen, China)

Microscopic analysis of “iron spot” on blue-and-white porcelain from Jingdezhen imperial kiln in early Ming dynasty (14th–15th century), in "Microscopy Research and Technique", September 2016, Wiley

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• Wen, C. S. Wang, Z. W. Mao, Y. Y. Huang, A. M. Pollard (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei; Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford; Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) 

The Chemical Composition of Blue Pigment on Chinese Blue-And-White Porcelain of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, in "Archaeometry", 49, 1, 2007.

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• Stacey Pierson (Professor at the History of Art and Archaeology Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK)

True or False? Defining the Fake in Chinese Porcelain, Open Edition, Les Cahiers de Framespa, e-STORIA, 31 | 2019

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• Takatoshi Misugi

 Changing Current of Chinese Export Porcelain: From Celadon to Blue-and-White in "Integral Study of The Silk Roads: Roads of Dialogue", Bangkok, Thailand, 21-22 January, 1991

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• Hiram Woodward

Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain In Various Worlds, in "The Journal Of The Walters Art Museum", vol. 70/71, Essays In Honor Of William R. Johnston (2012/2013), pp. 25-38

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• Hsu Wen-Chin

Social and Economic Factors in the Chinese Porcelain Industry in Jingdezhen during the Late Ming and Early Qing Period, ca. 1620-1683, in "The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland", No. 1 (1988), pp. 135-159 (25 pages)

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Sa Dingding - Capricorn (來者摩羯) - from her third album The Coming Ones, 2012

Sa Dingding ( 萨顶顶, born Zhou Peng on 27 December 1979) is a Chinese folk singer and songwriter, born to a Mongolian mother and Han Chinese father. She sings in Mandarin Chinese, Sanskrit, Standard Tibetan, as well as an imaginary language she created to evoke emotions and inspire.

ON THE HISTORY OF CHINESE PAINTING

• Maxwell K. Hearns (MET curator, Department of Asian Art)

How to read Chinese Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Yale University, US, 2008

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• Huang Kunfeng (Chinese Academy of Fine Arts)

An Illustrated Guide to 50 Masterpieces of Chinese Painting, Shanghai Press and Publishing Development Co. Ltd., 2019

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• Xang Xing, Nie Chongzheng, Lang Shaojun, Richard M. Barnhart, James Cahill, Wu Hung

 Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, Yale University Press / Foreign Language Press, Beijing, 1997

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• Yurong Ma (Professor at the Faculty of Innovation and Design at the City University of Macau, China)

Study on "A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains" by Wang Ximeng, in Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, vol. 511, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education, Atlantis Press, 2020

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Sa Dingding - Yun Yun Nan Nan (云云南南) - from the second album Harmony (天地合), 2010

ON CHINESE CULTURE

• Wolfram Eberhard (professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and expert in in Chinese folklore)

A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols. Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought, Routledge, London - New York, 1986

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• Edited by Kevin McLoughlin (Principal Curator – East and Central Asia Curator National Museums Scotland)

Ming: The Golden Empire, National Museums Scotland 2014, published by Bell & Bain Limited, Glasgow, UK.

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• Terese Tse Bartholomew (Curator at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum since 1968, and a leading authority on Chinese iconography)

3. "One Hundred Children: From Boys At Play To Icons Of Good Fortune", in Children in Chinese Art, edited by Ann Barrott Wicks, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp. 57-83.

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Daiqing Tana & Haya Band - Qinghai Lake - from her second album Silent Sky, 2009.

Daiqing Tana (代青塔娜) is an ethnic Mongol singer-songwriter from Qinghai, China, and the lead singer of the band HAYA.

ON OTHER ASIAN CULTURES

 

• Anna Willmann (Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Edo-Period Japanese Porcelain, The MET, April 2011

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• Glen R. Brown (Professor of Art History at Kansas State University, US)

Vietnamese blue & white stonewares of the 14th-16th centuries, in "Ceramics Technical", May 2008.

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Daiqing Tana & Haya Band - Ongmanibamai - from the album Silent Sky, 2009

Ongmanibamai in Mongolian is the sacred Buddhist mantra Om Mani Padme Hum in Sanskrit.

ON CHINA AND THE EUROPEAN WEST

• Edited by Rui Manuel Loureiro (ISMAT - Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Faculty Member)

Cristóvão Vieira and Vasco Calvo, Cartas dos Cativos de Cantão (1524?), Instituto Cultural de Macau, 1992

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• Dolors Folch i Fornesa (Sinologist, emeritus professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona)

The Europeans Discovery of Xina, Mooc, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

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• Rogério Miguel Puga (assistant professor at the University of Macau and a senior researcher at the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies)

The British presence in Macau 1635-1793, The Focus, Summer 2013

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• Irene Bowen Backus

Asia Materialized: Perceptions of China in Renaissance Florence, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Art History, The University of Chicago, Illinois, 2014

 

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Siqingerile  - Blessing Song - 2020

Siqingerile, a Chinese folk musician of Mongolian origin, and her band fuse ethnic minority traditions with pop rhythms. Note that in China, there are 56 ethnic minority groups whose non-Han cultures and languages need to be preserved.

CHINESE PORCELAIN AND THE WEST

• Anne Gerritsen and Stephen McDowall (University of Warwick, UK)

Material Culture and the Other: European Encounters with Chinese Porcelain, ca. 1650-1800, in "Journal of World History", Volume 23, Number 1, March 2012, pp. 87-113, published by University of Hawai'i Press

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• Edgar Vigário

Chinese export porcelain from the 16th until the 19th century, June 2015.

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• Dongliang Lyu, Yang Liu, and Wu Wei (Charles University, Praha (Czech Republic), and Guangzhou University, China)

Chinese porcelain in Europe in "International Journal of New Developments in Engineering and Society", Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2019; pp.  268-271

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• Rose Kerr (Curator of the Far Eastern Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London)

The Reception of Chinese and Japanese Porcelain in Europe, International Seminar for UNESCO Integral Study of the Silk Roads: Roads of Dialogue “Silk Roads and Japan”. Themes: “The Silk Roads and Shosoin”; “Ceramics carried along the Maritime Silk Roads”. 6-8 March, 1991. Nara, Japan.

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• Jeffrey Munger and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen (experts at The MET of New York, US)

East and West: Chinese Export Porcelain, in "Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History", New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2003

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• Clare Le Corbeiller and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen (The MET, New York)

Chinese Export Porcelain in "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin", New Series, Vol. 60, No. 3, Winter, 2003, pp. 1+5-60 (59 pages).

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• Jan van Campen (curator for Asian export art and ceramics at the Museum Princessehof in Leeuwarden and the Rijksmuseum

in Amsterdam)

Asian Ceramics in the Netherlands, IIAS, # 32, November 2003

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• Teresa Canepa (Independent researcher and lecturer in Chinese and Japanese export art)

Kraak porcelain. The rise of global trade in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, in the homonymous volume edited by Luisa Vinhais and Jorge Welsh, Jorge Welsh Books, 2008, London-Lisbon.

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• Sebastiaan Ostkamp (University of Amsterdam)

The Dutch 17th-century porcelain trade from an archaeological perspective, in VV. AA., Chinese and Japanese porcelain for the Dutch Golden Age, Zwolle : Waanders Uitgevers, 2014

 

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• Ronald C. Po (Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science)

Tea, Porcelain, and Silk: Chinese Exports to the West in the Early Modern Period, in Asian History, 2018

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• Cinta Krahe (professor of East Asian Art and Material Culture at the University of Alcalá, and at the Universidad de Nebrija in Madrid)

- Chinese Porcelain In Spain During The Habsburg Dynasty, Lecture given on Tuesday 12 February 2013

- The Reception and Value of Chinese Porcelain in Habsburg Spain, in VV.AA., EurAsian Matters - China, Europe, and the Transcultural Object, 1600–1800, Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context, edited by Anna Grasskamp and Monica Juneja, Springer, 2018.

- Chinese Porcelain in Habsburg Spain, Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2016

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• Margaret McCunn Burns

Chinese and Japanese Porcelain in Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Paintings 1600 — 1720, M-Phil Dissertation, University of Glasgow, 2004

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• Gillian Wilson

Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, revised edition with an Introduction by Sir Francis Waston, Hudson Publisher, Los Angeles, 1999

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• Stéphane Castelluccio (CNRS HDR Researcher)

- Le goût pour les porcelaines de Chine et du Japon à Paris aux XVII^e et XVIII^e siecles, Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2013, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, France

- Savoir apprécier la belle porcelaine de Chine et du Japon : les critères de choix des amateurs des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, édité par Florence Boulerie, Marc Favreau et Eric Francalanza,  L’Extrême-Orient dans la culture européenne des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Narr Verlag (Tübingen), pp.133-149, 2009

- Les porcelaines orientales du Garde-Meuble de la Couronne de Louis XIV à Louis XVI, in "Versalia. Revue de la Société des Amis de Versailles", n. 15, 2012, pp. 45-70

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• Stacey Pierson (Professor at the History of Art and Archaeology Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK)

Chinese Porcelain, the East India Company and British Cultural Identity, 1600-1800, in VV.AA., Picturing Commerce in and from the East Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800, edited by Tamara H. Bentley, Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

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• Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding (Université de Lille, France)

From the curious to the “artinatural”: the meaning of oriental porcelain in 17th and 18th-century English interiors, Miranda, 7 | 2012

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• Nicole Ganbold (Utrecht University)

Beautiful Chinese Porcelain in Dutch Still Lifes, in Daily Art Magazine, 20 October 2022

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• Greg Cook (Art critic, US)

Were Those Black ‘Servants’ In Dutch Old Master Paintings Actually Slaves?, in WBUR, Boston, US, January 15, 2016

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Siqingerile - Mountain Spring (a Mongolian chant) - from the album Mountain Spring, 2013

ON THE EAST INDIA COMPANIES

• Edited by Rui Manuel Loureiro (ISMAT - Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Faculty Member)

Cristóvão Vieira and Vasco Calvo, Cartas dos Cativos de Cantão (1524?), Instituto Cultural de Macau, 1992

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• Peter Borschberg (Historian with a focus on maritime history and cartography in the period 1500-1900, professor at the National University of Singapore)

The Dutch East India Company in Southeast Asia, Asian History, February 2021

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• Stewart Clegg et al. (University of Technology, Sydney Business School, Australia)

The East India Company: The First Modern Multinational?, in "Multinational Corporations and Organization Theory", Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017

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• Bruce Brunton (Historian)

The East India Company: Agent of Empire in the Early Modern Capitalist Era, in "Social Education" 77(2), 2013

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• Nick Robins (British expert on maritime history)

The Corporation that changed the world - How the East India Company shaped the modern multinational, 2nd edition, Pluto Press, London (UK), 2012.

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Alyx Becerra