Table of contents
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Introduction
Elif Akçetin and Suraiya Faroqhi
1 Setting the Stage
Elif Akçetin and Suraiya Faroqhi
Part 1: Dead Grandees and Their Inventories
2 Elite Objects and Private Collections in Eighteenth-Century China: A Study of Chen Huizu’s Confiscated Goods
Yun Yan
3 Ali Paşa and His Stuff: An Ottoman Household in Istanbul and Van
Amanda Phillips
4 Cutting a Fine Figure among Pots and Pans: Aghas of the Sultan’s Harem in the Eighteenth Century
Yıldız Yılmaz
5 Challenging the Paradigm of the Tulip Age: The Consumer Behavior of Nevşehirli Damad İbrahim Paşa and His Household
Selim Karahasanoğlu
Part 2: Urban Life: Generating a Self-Image through Textiles, Pictures, and Buildings
6 Furnishing the Home in Qing Yangzhou: A Case for Rethinking “Consumer Constraint”
Antonia Finnane
7 A Preliminary Study of Local Consumption in the Qianlong Reign (1736–1796): The Case of Ba County in Sichuan Province
Wu Jen-shu and Wang Dagang
8 Women, Wealth and Textiles in 1730s Bursa
Suraiya Faroqhi
9 Consuming Luxurious and Exotic Goods in Damascus around 1700
Colette Establet
Part 3: Food Culture
10 From Artichoke to Corn: New Fruits and Vegetables in the Istanbul Market (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
Arif Bilgin
11 Food and China’s World of Goods in the Long Eighteenth Century
Joanna Waley-Cohen
12 Of Feasts and Feudatories: The Politics of Commensal Consumption at the Early Kangxi Court
Michael G. Chang
Part 4: Materials: Precious and Modest, Luxuries and Necessities
13 Brass Consumption in the Qing Empire
Lai Hui-min and Su Te-Cheng
14 Consumption as Knowledge: Pawnbrokers in Qing China Appraise Furs
Elif Akçetin
15 Consuming and Possessing Things on Paper: Examples from Late Imperial China’s Natural Studies
Martina Siebert
16 Diamonds Are a Vizier’s Best Friends or: Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa’s Jewelry Assets
Hedda Reindl-Kiel
17 Of Bricks and Tiles: The History of a Local Industry in the Area of Mürefte (Thrace)
Edhem Eldem
Conclusion
Elif Akçetin and Suraiya Faroqhi
Chinese Character Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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