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Henri Bertin

Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France (Routledge, 2020)

Author John Finlay discusses the mutual fascination that enabled the transfer of objects and styles between eighteenth-century French and Chinese courts.

key themes
  • Calligraphy, brush arts, and word-and-image
  • Landscape, gardens, and environment
  • Material culture
  • Art and politics
  • Court art
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
further reading
  • Lee, Chao-Ying. Visions de l’Empire du Milieu au 18e siècle en France: Illustrations des Mémoires concernant les Chinois (1776–1791). Paris: L’Harmattan, 2016.
  • Mémoires concernant l’histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages, &c. des Chinois: Par les missionnaires de Pekin, Joseph Amiot, François Bourgeois, Pierre-Martial Cibot, Aloys Kao, Aloys de Poirot, et al., comp., 15 vols. Paris: Nyon, 1776–1791.
  • Mungello, David E. The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800, Fourth Edition, Revised. Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.
  • Musillo, Marco. The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699–1812. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2016.
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Where Dragon Veins Meet

Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe (University of Washington Press, 2020)

Author Stephen H. Whiteman discusses reconstructing an imperial garden with digital tools and the importance of spatial ideology in early eighteenth-century China.

key themes
  • Calligraphy, brush arts, and word-and-image
  • Landscape, gardens, and environment
  • Court art
  • Art and politics
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
further reading
  • Cahill, James. The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1982.
  • Certeau, Michel de. “Spatial Stories.” In Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, translated by Steven Rendall, 115–130. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
  • Chang, Michael G. A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680–1785. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
  • Clunas, Craig. Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.
  • Cosgrove, Denis E. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
  • Crossley, Pamela Kyle. A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
  • Elliott, Mark C. “The Limits of Tartary: Manchuria in Imperial and National Geographies.” Journal of Asian Studies 59:3 (2000): 603–46.
  • Forêt, Philippe. Mapping Chengde: The Qing Landscape Enterprise. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2000.
  • Hall, David L., and Roger T. Ames. “The Cosmological Setting of Chinese Gardens.” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 18:3 (1998): 175–86.
  • Harley, J. Brian. “Maps, Knowledge, and Power.” In The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography, edited by Paul Laxton, 51–83. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
  • Mitchell, W. J. T. “Imperial Landscape.” In Landscape and Power, edited by W. J. T. Mitchell, 5–34. 2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
  • Rawski, Evelyn S. “Presidential Address: Reenvisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese History.” Journal of Asian Studies 55:4 (1996): 829–50.
  • Strassberg, Richard E., and Stephen H. Whiteman. Thirty-Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016.
  • Upton, Dell. “Black and White Landscapes in Eighteenth Century Virginia.” In Material Life in America, 1600–1860, edited by Robert Blair St. George, 357–69. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987.
  • Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steve Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977.
  • Vinograd, Richard. “Family Properties: Personal Context and Cultural Pattern in Wang Meng’s ‘Pien Mountains’ of 1366.” Ars Orientalis 13 (1982): 1–29.
  • Whiteman, Stephen. From Upper Camp to Mountain Villa: Recovering Historical Narratives in Qing Imperial Landscapes.” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 33:4 (2013): 249–79.
  • Yuan Senpo. “Qingdai kouwai xinggong de youlai yu Chengde Bishu shanzhuang de fazhan guocheng.” Qingshi luncong 2 (1980): 286–319.
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Emperor Qianlong’s Hidden Treasures

Emperor Qianlong’s Hidden Treasures: Reconsidering the Collection of the Qing Imperial Household (Hong Kong University Press, 2019)

Author Nicole Chiang discusses the history of collecting, artistic patronage, and how imperial court production was organized during eighteenth-century China.

key themes
  • Material culture
  • Court art
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
  • Collecting and collections
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What the Emperor Built

What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming (University of Washington Press, 2020)

Author Aurelia Campbell discusses imperial and temple architecture built under the Yongle emperor in the early fifteenth century.

key themes
  • Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism
  • Material culture
  • Imperial art, politics, and the court
  • Architecture, space, and the built environment
further reading
  • Campbell, Aurelia. “The Hall of Supreme Harmony as a Simulacrum of Ming Dynasty Construction.” In The Ming World, edited by Kenneth Swope, 221-240. New York: Routledge Press, 2019.
  • Chan, Hok-Lam, Legends of the Building of Old Peking. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2008.
  • Clunas, Craig and Jessica Harrison-Hall, eds. Ming: 50 Years that Changed China. London: The British Museum Press, 2014.
  • Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Yu-ping Luk, eds. Ming Courts and Contacts (1400-1450). London: The British Museum Press, 2016.
  • Yu Zhouyun. Palaces of the Forbidden City. New York, NY: Viking, 1984.
  • Zhang, Fan Jeremy, ed. Royal Taste: The Art of the Princely Courts in Fifteenth-Century China. New York: Scala Arts and Heritage Publishers, 2015.
  • Zhu, Jianfei. Chinese Spatial Strategies: Imperial Beijing, 1420-1911. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
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Mongol Court Dress

Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange (Routledge, 2020)

Author Eiren Shea discusses fashion, politics, and the Mongol empire across Eurasia in the 13th and 14th centuries.

NOTE: The end of the video should state that there are over 5000 kilometers, not miles, between Beijing and Tabriz.

key themes
  • Material culture
  • Court art
  • Transcultural and transnational approaches
further reading
  • Allsen, Thomas T. Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Arnold, Lauren. Princely Gifts and Papal Treasures: The Franciscan Mission to China and its Influence on Art of the West, 1250-1350. San Francisco: Desiderata Press, 1999.
  • Chen Gaohua 陈高华 and Xu Jijun 徐吉军, eds. Zhongguo fushi tongshi 中国服饰通史. Ningbo: Ningbo chuban she, 2002.
  • Fircks, Juliane von and Regula Schorta, editors. Oriental Silks in Medieval Europe. Riggisberger Berichte 21. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2016.
  • Gordon, Stewart, editor. Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  • Hammers, Roslyn Lee. “Khubilai Khan Hunting: Tribute to the Great Khan.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 75.1 (2015), 5-44.
  • Kadoi, Yuka. Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
  • Komaroff, Linda, editor. Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006.
  • Komaroff, Linda and Stefano Carboni, editors. The Legacy of Genghis Khan. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002.
  • Kuhn, Dieter and Zhao Feng (eds.). Chinese Silks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
  • McCausland, Shane. The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2014.
  • Monnas, Lisa. Merchants, Princes, and Painters: Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings 1300-1500. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008.
  • Steinhardt, Nancy. “Yuan Period Tombs and Their Inscriptions,” Ars Orientalis 37 (2007), 140-174.
  • Wardwell, Anne E. and James C. Y. Watt. When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
  • Watt, James C.Y., editor. The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010.
  • Zhao Feng. Treasures in Silk. Hong Kong: Costume Squad Ltd., 1999.
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