{"product_id":"spectral-jade","title":"Spectral Jade","description":"The trade in jadeite jade is a multi-billion-dollar industry that spans miners and  military groups in northern Myanmar, traders and carvers in the Myanmar- China borderlands, and consumers in eastern Chinese cities like Shanghai. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpectral Jade is a study of how the jadeite trade is practiced and why jadeite is  so expensive in China. Based on ethnographic research among jadeite traders,  carvers, and users, the study presents a spectrum of voices that points to why  jade is called ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’ in China, while jadeite could aptly  be called ‘Blood Jade’ in Myanmar. Examining interplays of materiality and conceptuality in trade, carving, and use of jadeite, the study considers how  nonhuman materiality matters in human imagining, and  outlines contours of a Chinese holistic cosmology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenrik Kloppenborg Møller has done research in, and on  China since 2005. His research interests include materiality,  authenticity, knowledge, exchange, value, and identity.  Spectral Jade is his doctoral dissertation.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lunds universitet, Media-Tryck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32148296761433,"sku":"9789178953462","price":51.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9789178953462_1-spectral-jade.jpg?v=1749892991","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/spectral-jade","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}