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xii Introduction

Galleon Trades and generally classi!ed the changing of the ceramics of galleon
cargoes and their interactions with other European cargo ceramics. Three stages of
galleon ceramics were revealed in her study, of which the early stage of Spanish
trade had collected any kind of Chinese porcelains which mainly included the blue
and white Jingdezhen wares in the middle sixteenth century, the second stage had
involved in the trade of Fujian local Zhangzhou porcelain wares with similar pat-
terns and shapes but different quality as Jingdezhen in late sixteenth to early sev-
enteenth century, the third stage of galleon trade shipped diverse ceramics resulting
from the changing Jingdezhen and Zhangzhou wares adjusted to satisfy the wider
world market after the arrival of Dutch and other Europeans since the middle
seventeenth century. She emphasized that the three stages of the interaction of trade
had assimilated the ceramics cargos of the Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch for their
sharing the Chinese export porcelain wares produced for the world market.

Guanyu Wang

Nida T. Cuevas