Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France
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172 p.
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9781138050553
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Abstract
The history of modern Sino-European relations is still insufficiently known, yet it is of such vital importance to an understanding of China's place and self-positioning in the world today. This volume of essays on Yuanmingyuan by leading and pioneering authors on the topic expertly guide readers through controversial terrain. They often unpublished new materials and original perspectives that will generate new scholarship in a lively field of inquiry." -Ting Chang, University of Nottingham The fate of the objects from Beijings Summer Palace-including their roles in shaping Western views of China and ongoing debates about repatriation-is an immensely interesting and important subject.
Table of contents
PART I
Overviews
1. The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects
LOUISE TYTHACOTT
2. The Afterlives of a Ruin: The Yuanmingyuan in China and the West
JAMES L. HEVIA
3. From the Summer Palace 1860: Provenance and Politics
NICK PEARCE
PART II
The Yuanmingyuan in Britain
4. The Yuanmingyuan and Design Reform in Britain
KATE HILI
5. "True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment": Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain STACEY PIERSON
6. "Chinese Gordon" and the Royal Engineers Museum
JAMES SCOTT
7."Rose-weter Upon His Delicate Hands": Imperial and Imperialist Readings of the Hope Grant Ewer
KEVIN MCLOUGHLIN
PART III
The Yuanmingyuan in France
8. Henri Bertin (1720-1792) and Images of the Yuanmingyuan in Eighteenth-century France
JOHN FINLAY
9. Empress Eugénie's Chinese Museum at the Château of Fontainebleau: An Unusual Décor in the "House of the Ages"
VINCENT DROGUET
10. Yuanmingyuan on Display: Ornamental Aesthetics at the Musée Chinois
GREG M. THOMAS
Index