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Table of contents

I Preface and acknowledgments

12 Introduction
Terminology – Research frame – Focus on the Netherlands – Meaningful collectibles as art
and as commodity – Research questions – Sources – The structure of this dissertation

22 Chapter 1
Historiographic mapping of the field
1.1. Research by Western scholars
1.2. Research by Chinese scholars
1.3. Other research
1.4. New insights
36 Chapter 2
Theories for new insights into Chinese export paintings
2.1. Framework for visual analysis on a multiple level
2.2. Commodity dynamics
2.3. Chinese export painting as part of a visual economy
2.4. Commodities and people in a material complex
2.5. Transcultural lenses on Chinese export painting
2.6. Conclusion

64 Chapter 3
Mapping Chinese export painting
3.1. Dutch sea trade and China
3.2. Things global-local and the nineteenth century
3.3. The modus operandi of a global painting practice and its products
3.4. A shared cultural visual repertoire
3.5. Conclusion

112 Chapter 4
Inventory of the Dutch collections
An aggregate amount of sets, albums, various genres and multiple ways of seeing
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Sites and modalities: Sets and albums, and genres with Chinese subject matter
4.3. Conclusion
168 Chapter 5
Cultural biographies
Value matters and material complex issues
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Glorious but overlooked value – a cultural biography
5.3. From ‘sentimental keepsakes’ to national cultural heritage
5.4. Early icons of the historical China trade – a material complex case
5.5. Conclusion