Takes a local approach to a popular export product to explore the broader history of transpacific trade during the early modern period

Offers detailed accounts of several different sites of production, trade and consumption, from China to the Philippines and on to Mexico

Proposes a new perspective on the effect of increased connectivity between China and New Spain, charting both physical and demographic changes within cities and the isolation of other communities

Meha Priyadarshini is Fellow at the Sciences Po Europe-Asia Programme in Le Havre, France. Her research and teaching interests include global history, material culture studies, colonial Latin American history and art history. She earned her PhD from Columbia University and has held fellowships at the Getty Research Institute, the European University Institute and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence.