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.
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 Polos 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 Hes Westward Voyages to Matteo
Riccis 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 Riccis 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 Publics Aesthetic Imagination of Qing Dynasty
Lacquerware.
Chapter 33: Qing Dynasty Lacquerware in Europe and America.-
Chapter 34: Mutual Influence and Circulation.- Conclusion.
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.
