Chinese Porcelain in the Manila Galleon Trade
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AbstractSince the 16th century, Europeans started to explore the Asian sea with the financial and military support from royal families and nobles. Their efforts to trade with China drew the Ming Empire into the early Globalization. The beautiful artefacts with perfect craftsmanship made in Ming China soon became popular products around the world, among which, the Chinese porcelain was undoubtedly marked as the top brand. Europeans had participated actively into the stages of designing, producing, shipping and trading of Chinese porcelain wares, to ensure they make maximum profits from the business. Different interest groups and the various needs from overseas markets prompted the diversification of the Chinese porcelain in circulation. This chapter aims to take the Manila Galleon trade of the late Ming period as a study case. By tracing the clues of specific types of Chinese export porcelain wares and their changing combinations in the ship cargos from time to time, the author will discuss on the changing of their target markets and the dominant power behind.
All Author(s) ListGuanyu Wang
All Editor(s) ListChunming Wu, Roberto Junco Sanchez, Miao Liu
Edition1st edition
Book titleArchaeology of Manila Galleon Seaports and Early Maritime Globalization
Series TitleThe Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation 2
Year2019
PublisherSpringer
Place of PublicationSingapore
Pages93 - 113
ISBN978-981-32-9247-5
eISBN978-981-32-9248-2
LanguagesEnglish-United Kingdom
