CENÁRIOS DA CHINA EM CASAS PORTUGUESAS. A PROPÓSITO DO PAPEL DE PAREDE ：TRATOS ，ROTAS E DESTINOS葡人家宅的中國景色。關於墻紙：路程，路線及目的地
This article proposes reading "Chinese wallpaper" as a privileged object for understanding the intercontinental circulation of material culture and the production of imaginaries about China in the Portuguese domestic space. Building on a historiographical framework inspired by the work of Charles R....
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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| Format: | Articles |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2014
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40047/2373 |
| Summary: | This article proposes reading "Chinese wallpaper" as a privileged object for understanding the intercontinental circulation of material culture and the production of imaginaries about China in the Portuguese domestic space. Building on a historiographical framework inspired by the work of Charles R. Boxer—focused on networks, routes, and global articulations—the authors argue that the commodity, initially undervalued by historiography, assumed a decisive role in the creation of "exotic settings," transforming interiors into spaces of Chinese visuality.
Methodologically, the research combines documentary analysis with the reading of cargo records associated with the Carreira da Índia, supported by European descriptions and testimonies concerning Chinese decorative practices, especially from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The investigation follows the trajectory of wallpaper as a luxury, ephemeral, and fragile product, examining transport conditions and their visual impact, which enabled the materialization, in Portuguese daily life, of an aesthetically mediated experience of China.
It concludes that wallpaper functioned simultaneously as a commodity and a cultural device: its mercantile trajectories enabled the transformation of Chinese decorative repertoires into symbols appropriated by Portuguese circuits of consumption. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |