China and the Church : Chinoiserie in global context / Christopher M.S. Johns.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-173) and index.
China and the Church: from Matteo Ricci to the Chinese rites controversy -- Chinoiserie and Chinese art: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Chinoiserie and the Chinese body -- Conclusion: Chinoiserie and the enlightenment.

"This groundbreaking study examines decorative Chinese works of art and visual culture, known as chinoiserie, in the context of church and state politics, with a particular focus on the Catholic missions' impact on Western attitudes toward China and the Chinese. Art-historical examinations of chinoiserie have largely ignored the role of the church and its conversion efforts in Asia; Johns, however, demonstrates that the emperor's 1722 prohibition against Catholic evangelization, occurring after almost a century and a half of tolerance, prompted a remarkable change in European visualizations of China in Roman Catholic countries. China and the Church considers the progress of Christianity in China during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, examines authentic works of Chinese art available to European artists producing chinoiserie, and explains how the East Asian male body in Western art changed from "normative" depictions to whimsical, feminized grotesques after the collapse of the missionary efforts during the 1720s."--Provided by publisher.

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.

Another copy Gleeson Library.