Author: Shanshan Chen
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819911605
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they helped to shape European perceptions of China. The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, seeking to open ties between the two empires. As part of the mission, the British government commissioned writers and artists to chronicle the geography and culture of a civilization that had, until then, been shrouded in mystery. A central focus of the book is the artwork itself, which provides a window into the diplomatic, artistic and scientific viewpoints underlying the mission. Drawing on archival research, the study recreates the processes through which the Embassy’s draughtsmen, scientists, and diplomats collaborated to represent the visual images, and how the materials were reworked for publication in London. The finished product demonstrates that the artists offered a distinct viewpoint in the representation of China, sometimes differing from the textual accounts, by blending scientific elements and artistic aesthetics in order to demystify China and make it more knowable to a British audience. It was in the interposition of text and image that the British public formulated an ambivalent perception of China that embraced both admiration and disdain. In addition to the scholars, the book targets general readers who are interested in global art and history, and East–West interactions. It contains important images with detailed visual and historical analysis that enable readers to acquire knowledge on how the British represented China and how that image helped to shape the European perception of China during the British global expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and beyond.
Art, Science, and Diplomacy: A Study of the Visual Images of the Macartney Embassy to China, 1793
Author: Shanshan Chen
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819911605
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they helped to shape European perceptions of China. The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, seeking to open ties between the two empires. As part of the mission, the British government commissioned writers and artists to chronicle the geography and culture of a civilization that had, until then, been shrouded in mystery. A central focus of the book is the artwork itself, which provides a window into the diplomatic, artistic and scientific viewpoints underlying the mission. Drawing on archival research, the study recreates the processes through which the Embassy’s draughtsmen, scientists, and diplomats collaborated to represent the visual images, and how the materials were reworked for publication in London. The finished product demonstrates that the artists offered a distinct viewpoint in the representation of China, sometimes differing from the textual accounts, by blending scientific elements and artistic aesthetics in order to demystify China and make it more knowable to a British audience. It was in the interposition of text and image that the British public formulated an ambivalent perception of China that embraced both admiration and disdain. In addition to the scholars, the book targets general readers who are interested in global art and history, and East–West interactions. It contains important images with detailed visual and historical analysis that enable readers to acquire knowledge on how the British represented China and how that image helped to shape the European perception of China during the British global expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and beyond.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819911605
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they helped to shape European perceptions of China. The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, seeking to open ties between the two empires. As part of the mission, the British government commissioned writers and artists to chronicle the geography and culture of a civilization that had, until then, been shrouded in mystery. A central focus of the book is the artwork itself, which provides a window into the diplomatic, artistic and scientific viewpoints underlying the mission. Drawing on archival research, the study recreates the processes through which the Embassy’s draughtsmen, scientists, and diplomats collaborated to represent the visual images, and how the materials were reworked for publication in London. The finished product demonstrates that the artists offered a distinct viewpoint in the representation of China, sometimes differing from the textual accounts, by blending scientific elements and artistic aesthetics in order to demystify China and make it more knowable to a British audience. It was in the interposition of text and image that the British public formulated an ambivalent perception of China that embraced both admiration and disdain. In addition to the scholars, the book targets general readers who are interested in global art and history, and East–West interactions. It contains important images with detailed visual and historical analysis that enable readers to acquire knowledge on how the British represented China and how that image helped to shape the European perception of China during the British global expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and beyond.
Art, Science, and Diplomacy
An Embassy to China
Author: Earl George Macartney Macartney
Publisher: Scholarly Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher: Scholarly Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Ritual & Diplomacy
Author: British Association for Chinese Studies. Conference
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
These new essays reassess the reason for Macartney's failure and explore the misunderstandings and misperceptions that faced the mission.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
These new essays reassess the reason for Macartney's failure and explore the misunderstandings and misperceptions that faced the mission.
Could Macartney's Mission to China in 1793 Have Succeeded?
Author: Alexander Syder
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3656846804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject History - Asia, grade: 2,1, University of Lincoln (Lincoln), course: History, language: English, abstract: This article aims to address why Macartney's Embassy to China in 1793 failed due to the geopolitical landscape at that time. The clash of civilization and culture that are at the root of understanding the failure. But, most importantly the event serves as vital background to understanding the future Opium Wars of China. The debate surrounding the question of why Macartney failed in 1793 can easily become reductive by over-emphasising Macartney's failure to perform the kowtow to Chinese standards of ritual. This however explores only a partiality of the debate by solely focusing on the event and Macartney; which in turn becomes a westernised perspective with no in-depth understanding of the Chinese geo-political context during the Eighteenth-Century. The argument must take into account Western goals and aims surrounding Macartney's embassy venture to China, and why they conflicted with the values and principles of Chinese Confucianism, and the conformity of traditional Chinese culture by the Celestial Empire. As Byng and Levere (1981) surmise, 'the embassy's failure is shown to reveal fundamental differences in British and Chinese Eighteenth-Century responses to Science; and has wide cultural implications'. The article attempts to approach the debate of Macartney's embassy from the scientific context of cultural analysis rather than mere historical significance of the event which creates a transitory debate of Macartney's character and refusal to perform the kowtow.
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3656846804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject History - Asia, grade: 2,1, University of Lincoln (Lincoln), course: History, language: English, abstract: This article aims to address why Macartney's Embassy to China in 1793 failed due to the geopolitical landscape at that time. The clash of civilization and culture that are at the root of understanding the failure. But, most importantly the event serves as vital background to understanding the future Opium Wars of China. The debate surrounding the question of why Macartney failed in 1793 can easily become reductive by over-emphasising Macartney's failure to perform the kowtow to Chinese standards of ritual. This however explores only a partiality of the debate by solely focusing on the event and Macartney; which in turn becomes a westernised perspective with no in-depth understanding of the Chinese geo-political context during the Eighteenth-Century. The argument must take into account Western goals and aims surrounding Macartney's embassy venture to China, and why they conflicted with the values and principles of Chinese Confucianism, and the conformity of traditional Chinese culture by the Celestial Empire. As Byng and Levere (1981) surmise, 'the embassy's failure is shown to reveal fundamental differences in British and Chinese Eighteenth-Century responses to Science; and has wide cultural implications'. The article attempts to approach the debate of Macartney's embassy from the scientific context of cultural analysis rather than mere historical significance of the event which creates a transitory debate of Macartney's character and refusal to perform the kowtow.
A Narrative of the British Embassy to China in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794
Author: Aeneas Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
News of Lord Macartney's embassy, the first British diplomatic mission to China, caused much excitement in Britain. Publishers were naturally keen to rush accounts into print as soon as possible and the present narrative, by Macartney's valet, was the first book describing the embassy to appear. It went through several editions, indicative of widespread popular interest, even if scholars and other writers consider that it lacks the gravitas of the authorised account published by Staunton in 1797, three years after the embassy's return.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
News of Lord Macartney's embassy, the first British diplomatic mission to China, caused much excitement in Britain. Publishers were naturally keen to rush accounts into print as soon as possible and the present narrative, by Macartney's valet, was the first book describing the embassy to appear. It went through several editions, indicative of widespread popular interest, even if scholars and other writers consider that it lacks the gravitas of the authorised account published by Staunton in 1797, three years after the embassy's return.
An Accurate Account of Lord Macartney's Embassy to China ... Abridged from the original work with alterations and corrections by the editor, etc
Lord Macartney's Embassy to Peking in 1793
Author: Jack Cranmer-Byng
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
An Embassy to China
The Instructions of the East India Company to Lord Macartney on His Embassy to China and His Reports to the Company, 1792-4: Instructions of the East India Company to Lord Macartney on His Embassy to China and His Reports to the company, 1792-4, Earl H. Pritchard
Author: Earl Hampton Pritchard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415189989
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415189989
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description