Prof. Lucille Chia (History, UC Riverside)
Wednesday, February 23
5 p.m.
Virtual Event: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/96818389641
Prof. Lucille Chia is Professor of History at the University of California-Riverside. Her research focuses on the transmission of knowledge in imperial China. She published a seminal study on the social history of the book and publishing in late imperial China, titled Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian, 11th to 17th centuries, Harvard University Asia Center Publications, 2002 followed by the conference volume titled Knowledge and text production in an age of print China, 900-1400. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011 and Spreading Buddha's word in East Asia: the formation and transformation of the Chinese Buddhist canon. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, which she co-edited with Jiang Wu.
In this talk Prof. Chia will revisit Fujian Province and present aspects of the social history related to the production of ceramics from the Zhangzhou kilns, which produced for domestic consumption as well as for export on a large scale. For a short period, Zhangzhou kilns rivaled the famed porcelain center of Jingdezhen in the amount of export ware it produced. The markets for Zhangzhou ware spanned the globe from Japan to Southeast Asia to the Middle East and the Americas, as well as its own local area. The history of Zhangzhou ware can help explain the rise and decline of export ceramics centers throughout of China over the centuries.
Topic: Prof. Lucille Chia: China Beyond China; china within China: Zhangzhou ceramics 16th-19th cent.
Time: Feb 23, 2022 5 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/96818389641
