Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950

Raquel A. G. Reyes is an Associate Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, and former British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow in London. She works on the history of science and medicine, the history of gender and sexuality, and global trade and local cultural innovation in early modern Southeast Asia, with particular reference to the Philippines. She is the author of Love, Passion and Patriotism: Sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement, 1882-1892, and co-editor of Sexual Diversity in Asia c.600-1950. She is also a columnist for the Manila Times.

• Introduction; Raquel A. G. Reyes.- Japanese Export Lacquer and Global Art History: An Art of Mediation in Circulation; Thomas DaCosta Kaufman.- Paradise in Stone: Representations of New World Plants and Animals on Spanish Colonial Churches in the Philippines; Raquel A. G. Reyes.- Betel, tobacco and beverages in Southeast Asia; William Gervase Clarence-Smith.- Domestic Interiors in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Batavia; Michael North.