Keywords: perspective, European painting and art in China, Nadal, Castiglione, court painting, Haixi pai 海西派, Ripa, engraving, copper engraving, technical books, religious art, books and printing, Ricci and religious icons.

Qing encounters : artistic exchanges between China and the West / ǂc edited by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding, with Lidy Jane Chu.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding -- Part one. Collection and display. Hybrid spaces of encounter in the Qing era / Richard Vinograd -- Frames of appropriation: foreign artifacts on display in early modern Europe and China / Anna Grasskamp -- Global circulations, local transformations: objects and cultural encounter in the eighteenth century / Kristel Smentek -- Encountering magnificence: European silks at the Qing court during the eighteenth century / Mei Mei Rado -- Part two. Knowledge and information exchange between China and the west. Henri Bertin and the commerce in images between France and China in the late eighteenth century / John Finlay -- Vegetal travel: western European plants in the garden of the Emperor of China / Che-Bing Chiu -- Nineteenth-century canton gardens and the east-west plant trade / Yuen Lai Winnie Chan -- Imperial impressions: the Qianlong emperor's print suites / Marcia Reed -- Part three. Modes and meanings of (adopted) techniques of representation. Hatchings in the void: ritual and order in Bishu Shanzhuang Shi and Matteo Ripa's Views of Jehol / Yue Zhuang -- War and empire: images of battle during the Qianlong reign / Ya-Chen Ma -- From science to art: the evolution of linear perspective in eighteenth-century Chinese art / Kristina Kleutghen -- Shadows in Chinese art: and intercultural perspective / Lihong Liu -- Part four. Chinoiserie, Européenerie, hybridity. Narrating the city: Pu Qua and the depiction of street life in Canton / Yeewan Koon -- Chinoiserie and intercultural dialogue at Brighton pavilion / Greg M. Thomas -- Surface contact: decoration in the Chinese taste / Stacey Sloboda -- Betwixt and between: "Chinese taste" in Peter the Great's Russia / Jennifer Milam.

"Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. These essays reveal how trading and copying images, artifacts, and natural specimens inflected both cultures' visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and representing. Artists and craftspeople borrowed and adapted forms, techniques, and modes of representation, producing deliberate, meaningful, and complex hybrid creations. By considering this reciprocity from both Eastern and Western perspectives, Qing Encounters offers a new and nuanced understanding of this critical period"--Page 4 of cover.

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