{"product_id":"living-the-good-life-consumption-in-the-qing-and-ottoman-empires-of-the-eighteenth-century-9789004349384","title":"Living the Good Life: Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEighteenth-century consumers of the Qing and Ottoman empires had access to an increasingly diverse array of goods, from home furnishings to fashionable clothes and new foodstuffs. While this tendency was of shorter duration and intensity in the Ottoman world, some urbanites of the sultans’ realm did enjoy silks, coffee, and Chinese porcelain. By contrast, a vibrant consumer culture flourished in Qing China, where many consumers flaunted their fur coats and indulged in gourmet dining.  Living the Good Life explores how goods furthered the expansion of social networks, alliance-building between rulers and regional elites, and the expression of elite, urban, and gender identities. The scholarship in the present volume highlights the recently emerging “material turn” in Qing and Ottoman historiographies and provides a framework for future research.  Contributors: Arif Bilgin, Michael G. Chang, Edhem Eldem, Colette Establet, Antonia Finnane, Selim Karahasanoglu, Lai Hui-min, Amanda Phillips, Hedda Reindl-Kiel, Martina Siebert, Su Te-Cheng, Joanna Waley-Cohen, Wang Dagang, Wu Jen-shu, Yıldız Yılmaz, and Yun Yan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210728333655,"sku":"9789004349384","price":172.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/living-the-good-life-consumption-in-the-qing-and-ottoman-empires-of-the-eighteenth-century-9789004349384","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}