Subject: China--History--Qianlong 乾隆, 1736-1795--Exhibitions

China : the three emperors, 1662-1795
AuthorRawski, Evelyn SakakidaRawson, JessicaRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
PlaceLondon
PublisherRoyal Academy of Arts
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook (Exhibition catalog)
Series
ShelfAdmin. Office
Call NumberN7343.5.C455 2005
Description494 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 31 x 26 cm.
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China : the three emperors, 1662-1795 / edited by Evelyn S. Rawski and Jessica Rawson.
Exhibition held November 12, 2005-April 17, 2005, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
With Gallery Guide inserted. 
Includes bibliographical references. ***Graphic resource.

" ... China: The Three Emperors, 1662–1795 ... imperial treasures of the Qing dynasty. Drawn largely from the remarkable collections of the Palace Museum, Beijing, it will focus on the artistic and cultural riches of the three most powerful emperors of China’s last dynasty: The Kangxi Emperor (1662–1722), The Yongzheng Emperor (1723–35) and The Qianlong Emperor (1736–95). Some 400 works will include such treasures as paintings and painted scrolls, jades and bronzes, porcelain and lacquer ware, precious robes, palace furnishings, scientific instruments, weapons and ceremonial armour..." --cf. exhibition press release.

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ISBN1903973694
Splendors of China's Forbidden City : the glorious reign of Emperor Qianlong
AuthorField Museum of Natural HistoryHo, ChuimeiBronson, Bennet
PlaceLondon
PublisherMerrell
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeExhibition catalog
Series
ShelfAdmin. Office
Call NumberN7343.5.S76 2004
Description288 p. : color ill. ; 28 cm.
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Splendors of China's Forbidden City : the glorious reign of Emperor Qianlong / Chuimei Ho and Bennet Bronson.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Splendors of China's Forbidden City : the glorious reign of Emperor Qianlong, The Field Museum, Chicago, March 12-September 12, 2004.
Bibliography: p. 281-283. Includes index.
Glossary of Chinese names, terms, items.

Catalog includes brief text entries on specific topics: Heirarchy of the Eight Banners, Cousins of the Manchus (Pamela Crossley); Ode to Mukden; Yuanming Yuan Summer Palace (Cary Y. Liu); Nurgaci's seven grievances against the Ming; Lang Shining or Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian painter at the Qing Court (Nie Chongzheng); Rong Fei and the Fragrant Concubine (Evelyn S. Rawski), Religions of the Qianlong Court (map of Buddhist and Daoist sites in the 18th century Forbidden City), etc.
Added keywords: Yuanmingyuan 圓明園, thrones, Mount Tai, high heels platform shoes, Empress's silkworms, Imperial workshops, martial arts and hunting, Heshen, Macartney's unsuccessful mission, shamanism, Buddhism, Daoism, Islam and Christianity, Jesuit ancestor rituals, Bixia and Seven Stars, mothers, wives, grandparents of the emperor, dining in the palace, Xiang Fei 香妃, palace ladies, memorial on porcelain, ceramics, jade-carving industry (Yang Boda), Voltaire on Qianlong versus Frederick the Great (Bennet Bronson). Thanka, swords, teapots, haipins, family portraits, imperial consorts, cloisonne.
***Graphic resource

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