Dedication

pp 5-6

contents

pp 7-8

List of plates and figures

pp 9-18

Acknowledgements

pp 19-20

1 - People and things in motion: The view from the East

pp 21-52

Part I - Circuits and exchanges

pp 53-54

2 - The maritime trading world of East Asia from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries

pp 55-82

3 - The junk trade and Hokkien merchant networks in maritime Asia, 1570–1760

pp 83-112

4 - The trade activities of sixteenth-century Christian daimyo Ōtomo Sōrin:

pp 113-124

Part II - Commodities

pp 141-142

5 - From global to local: The diaspora of Asian decorative arts in colonial Latin America

pp 127-158

6 - Trans-Pacific connections: Contraband mercury trade in the sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries

pp 159-194

7 - “The Features are Esteem’d very just”: Chinese unfired clay portrait figures of Westerners

pp 195-220

Part III - Hybrid aesthetics

pp 237-238

8 - The global keyboard: Music, visual forms, and maritime trade in the early modern era

pp 223-246

9 - Barbarian tropes framed anew: Three Qing dynasty Chinese lacquer screens of Europeans hunting

pp 247-274

10 - Chinese porcelain, the East India Company, and British cultural identity, 1600–1800

pp 275-292

Index

pp 293-303