Transformative Jars

List of Contributors
List of Illustrations

Transformative Jars: An Introduction
Anna Grasskamp, University of St Andrews, UK; Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick, UK, and Leiden University, Netherlands

Part I. Transformative Matters: Ceramic Vessels, Chemistry and Socio-Economic Change
Chapter 1. Dreams of Transformation: A 14th-century Flask from Cizhou
Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick and Leiden University
Chapter 2. Jars that Cheered: Alcohol and Stoneware Containers in Java before 1500
Jiri Jakl, University of Heidelberg

Part II. Transformative Spaces: Ceramic Vessels and Asian Locations
Chapter 3. Siamese Jars and their Significance in Southeast-Asian Trade from the 14th to the 18th Century
Atthasit Sukkham, Bangkok University
Chapter 4. Weaving Networks: Production and Exchange of Ceramic Jars in South China and Vietnam from the 14th to the 16th Century
Wong Wai-yee Sharon, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Part III. Transcultural Enclosures: Containers and their Contents in Global Context
Chapter 5. For Oil, Date Syrup and the Tomb of a Chinese Queen: The Reciprocal Trade in Chinese and West Asian Jars in the Late Tang/Early Abbasid Periods
Eva Stroeber, Curator Emerita, National Museum of Ceramics Princessehof Leeuwarden
Chapter 6. Translocation and Transformation: The Lives of Chinese Fishbowls in the Early Modern Period
Wen-ting Wu, National Taiwan University

Part IV. Transformative Containers: Individual Jars and Modes of Agency
Chapter 7. The Jars Have Ears: Circulation and Proliferation of Chinese Prototype Container Jars and their Offspring in Asia
Louise Cort, Curator Emerita for Ceramics, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Chapter 8. Dragons in Flux: A Changing Relationship between People and Jars in the Kelabit Highlands, Borneo, from the 19th to the 21st century
Borbala Nyiri, independent scholar
Chapter 9. Jar Interventions: Ceramic Containers as Disobedient Objects in Contemporary Asian Art
Sooyoung Leam, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK; Anna Grasskamp, University of St Andrews, UK

Chapter 10. Concluding Thoughts on Transformative Jars: Asian Ceramic Vessels as Transcultural Enclosures
Anna Grasskamp, University of St Andrews, UK; Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick, UK, and Leiden University, Netherlands

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