Affiliation:
1. Hong Kong Baptist University
Abstract
Laying the groundwork for a study of Sino-European exchanges in art and maritime
material culture between 1500 and 1700, the introduction outlines the framework
in which the book positions itself. As the early modern interest in shells and pearls
was rooted in material, aesthetic, artisanal, sensual and scientific interests, the
introduction highlights relevant scholarship in the fields of ecology, art history,
animal studies, anthropology, gender studies, political science and the history of
science that engage with the conceptualization of EurAsian matter and situates
the monograph within the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press