HISTORY 21B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Jingdezhen Ware, Qianlong Emperor, Snuff Bottle
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Labor specialization: 72 hands to finish a pot . By 1712: 3,000 commercial kilns, 6,000 water wheels; quota of 17,000 pieces/ year imperial quota. Medium: porcelain with yellow glaze (jingdezhen ware), amber stopper. Silver as currency: from barbarian heads to buddha heads . Allowed a single weaver to weave wide fabrics. Helped to launch the first factory system for cotton fabrics. Industrialization brought about rapid and radical change to societies across the globe. It was part of a larger transformation in trade and industry that created new forms of consumption as well as production. It was a global process but happened unevenly, beginning in europe. 1600-1800 more people dependent on market purchases. Incomes fell but more goods bought and sold. Increasing demand building economy both regionally and globally. Conditions in china not markedly different to 1800. Until 1800, the flow of world goods (excluding silver) was from asia into europe.
