明代晚期的全球贸易和消费取向悄然影响着中国文人在园业、绘画、书籍和古物等方面的品位。这一消费嗜好一直膨胀至18世纪以后。比如,晚明至清初的园业主们就生活在一个白银由新世界流向中国,换取丝绸、瓷器、茶叶和玉器等消费品的时代。棉花在南方沿海诸省的农业改革中取代了稻米种植,促使明朝经济进一步转型;日本白银的渗入也使16世纪的货币经济得到空前发展。明代中国无意间面向了全球市场,其文学、艺术的发展轨迹将从此改变。 The orientation of global trade and consumption in the late Ming Dynasty quietly influenced the quality of Chinese literati in the field of industry, painting, books and antiquities. This spending hobby has been expanded to the eighteenth century. For example, garden owners from late Ming to early Qing dynasty lived in an age when silver was flowing from New World to China in exchange for such consumer goods as silk, porcelain, tea and jade. Cotton replaced rice cultivation in agricultural reforms in the southern coastal provinces to promote further economic transformation in the Ming Dynasty. The infiltration of Japanese silver also made the monetary economy of the 16th century unprecedentedly develop. In the Ming Dynasty China accidentally faced the global market, its literature and art development will change from this.