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Silk Thread: China and the Netherlands from 1600

Door Tristan Mostert e.a.

Categorie
Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer
#408977-LB10
Titel
Silk Thread: China and the Netherlands from 1600
Auteur
Mostert, Tristan & Jan van Campen
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
Amsterdam : Rijks Museum/Uitgeverij Vantilt
Jaar van uitgave
2015
ISBN10
9460042503
ISBN13
9789460042508
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original pictorial boards, numerous (full page) illustrations (including photographs) mostly in colour, 4to.
Samenvatting
ilk Thread uses objects from the Rijksmuseum collection to explore the shared history of China and the Netherlands from 1600 to the present. This book pays lavish attention both to the intensive efforts of Dutch traders to reach China and establish a trading post, and to the Dutch peoples fascination with Chinese goods. The products of the encounter the silk, porcelain and lacquerware, the travelogues and atlases defined perceptions of China in the Netherlands and far beyond. In the same period, the Netherlands gained a small but significant place in Chinese consciousness. The often-turbulent relationship between China and the West forms an intriguing contrast to the enduring Dutch interest in China and the magnificent objects emanating from it. Tristan Mostert is a historian specializing ... (Lees verder)in Dutch overseas history in the early modern period. A former junior curator in the History department of the Rijksmuseum, he is currently working on a doctoral thesis at Leiden University. Jan van Campen is the Rijksmuseums Curator of Asian Export Art, a position he has held since 2001. His areas of special interest are Chinese porcelain and the history of Asian art collecting in Europe. Silk Thread is part of the Country Series published by the Rijksmuseums History department. Each book in the series uses objects in the Rijksmuseum collection to explore the shared history of the Netherlands and one of the following countries: Indonesia, Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Ghana, Suriname and Brazil.
Pagina's
240
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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