HIS280Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chinoiserie, Cohong, Canton System
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Feb 1: high qing culture - arts & materiality. A trickle down and a spreading out [of culture] . Evidence of global exchange (i. e. new world crops) that defined the late qing. Just as things were being imported, things also being exported (silks, porcelains etc. ) Chinoiserie didn"t always come from chinabut represented western notion that china was cool and trendy. A lot of chinoiserie aesthetic was amped up" version of chinese-y culture. Chinese esp. produced porcelain in jingdezhen (ne city) The start of their demand in high qing. And increasing influence of voltaire (wrote about china"s innate moral strength" and absorbent culture, unified by durable script), hegel (hexagrams divination!) and leibniz. Oriental civilization vs. western civilization: qing invasion - external seeds of destruction. We"ve got impressive global infrastructure, 3 long-lived/stable rulerships, etc . Persistent seeds of dynastic destruction (things built into imperial model) ****unique global connectedness of the qing, some background: Canton is a city (not a province), aka guangxhou.