The Rise and Fall of the Luxury Debates
The Rise and Fall of the Luxury Debates
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奢侈品争论的兴衰
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2003
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通讯作者：
E. Eger
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M. Berg;E. Eger
奢侈品并不是我们这个时代的新鲜事物。需求和欲望、必需品和奢侈品之间不断变化的鸿沟，是17、18世纪后期消费社会诞生时政治家和知识分子的首要关注点。奢侈是现代早期的决定性问题。一个新经历和认识到的世界经济为亚洲消费社会和新大陆的外来食品和原材料带来了更多的机会。这种新的奢侈品贸易刺激了技术、产品、营销策略以及商业和金融机构的创新。亚洲的消费品——棉花，尤其是细布和印花印花布、丝绸、瓷器、装饰性黄铜和铁器、漆器和纸制品——成为欧洲进口的奢侈品，后来又成为欧洲本土的消费品。这些商品的广泛贸易与中上层社会的新文明相吻合，这体现在新的饮食和社交方式上。家庭餐饮和饮茶补充了咖啡馆、商店、游乐花园、集会和剧院的公共休闲活动。
Luxury is no novelty of our own times. The shifting divide between need and desire, necessities and luxuries, was a guiding preoccupation of statesmen and intellectuals at the birth of consumer society in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Luxury was the defining issue of the early modern period. A newly experienced and perceived world economy brought greater access to Asian consumer societies and to the exotic foods and raw materials of the New World. This new trade in luxuries was to stimulate innovation in technologies, products, marketing strategies and commercial and financial institutions. Asian consumer goods — cottons, especially muslins and printed calicoes, silk, porcelain, ornamental brass and ironware, lacquer and paper goods — became imported luxuries in Europe, and were later to become indigenous European consumer goods. The widespread trade in these goods coincided with a new civility in middling and upper-class society, which was conveyed in new ways of eating and socialising. Domestic dining and tea-drinking complemented public leisure in coffee houses, shops, pleasure gardens, assemblies and the theatre.