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Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West

Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West

$55.00 at The Getty Museum.

Edited by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the contact between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East- West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cultures’ visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and…