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Article: Inventing the ‘Foreignized’ Chinese Carpet in Treaty-port Tianjin, China
Title | Inventing the ‘Foreignized’ Chinese Carpet in Treaty-port Tianjin, China |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Carpet China Colonialism Exports Interior decoration |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/ |
Citation | Journal of Design History, 2017, v. 30 n. 3, p. 300-514 How to Cite? |
Abstract | When the northern Chinese city Tianjin was 'opened up' as a treaty-port after the Second Opium War in 1860, it had never produced a single carpet; by 1929, the city was exporting 180,000 pieces annually, more than any other Chinese city. Carpets were never indigenous to the Tianjin/Beijing region, but were imagined, invented and produced for export at the turn of the twentieth century. The history of the Chinese export carpet from idea to object reveals how tastes and styles aligned with global power and politics. At the height of nineteenth-century British imperialism, a broadly imagined Eastern aesthetic mixed Chinese porcelains with Japanese kimonos and Turkish carpets. With the rise of the nation-state in the twentieth century, distinctions among national styles became more clearly delineated, and the newly invented Chinese carpet became the centrepiece of Chinese-style interior design. From imagined Asian artefact to authentic Chinese commodity, the carpet is an example of how Chinese, European and American people used commodities to navigate uneven systems of global power to produce ideas of Chineseness, foreignness, tradition and modernity. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/260922 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.166 |
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dc.contributor.author | La Couture, EJ | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-14T08:49:34Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-14T08:49:34Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Design History, 2017, v. 30 n. 3, p. 300-514 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0952-4649 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/260922 | - |
dc.description.abstract | When the northern Chinese city Tianjin was 'opened up' as a treaty-port after the Second Opium War in 1860, it had never produced a single carpet; by 1929, the city was exporting 180,000 pieces annually, more than any other Chinese city. Carpets were never indigenous to the Tianjin/Beijing region, but were imagined, invented and produced for export at the turn of the twentieth century. The history of the Chinese export carpet from idea to object reveals how tastes and styles aligned with global power and politics. At the height of nineteenth-century British imperialism, a broadly imagined Eastern aesthetic mixed Chinese porcelains with Japanese kimonos and Turkish carpets. With the rise of the nation-state in the twentieth century, distinctions among national styles became more clearly delineated, and the newly invented Chinese carpet became the centrepiece of Chinese-style interior design. From imagined Asian artefact to authentic Chinese commodity, the carpet is an example of how Chinese, European and American people used commodities to navigate uneven systems of global power to produce ideas of Chineseness, foreignness, tradition and modernity. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Design History | - |
dc.rights | Pre-print: Journal Title] ©: [year] [owner as specified on the article] Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of xxxxxx]. All rights reserved. Pre-print (Once an article is published, preprint notice should be amended to): This is an electronic version of an article published in [include the complete citation information for the final version of the Article as published in the print edition of the Journal.] Post-print: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in [insert journal title] following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [insert complete citation information here] is available online at: xxxxxxx [insert URL that the author will receive upon publication here]. | - |
dc.subject | Carpet | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | Colonialism | - |
dc.subject | Exports | - |
dc.subject | Interior decoration | - |
dc.title | Inventing the ‘Foreignized’ Chinese Carpet in Treaty-port Tianjin, China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | La Couture, EJ: elac@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | La Couture, EJ=rp02316 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/jdh/epw042 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85030785914 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 291731 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 30 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 300 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 514 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000412209500005 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0952-4649 | - |