Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors

Part I: Overviews

1. The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects
Louise Tythacott

2. The Afterlives of a Ruin: The Yuanmingyuan in China and the West
James L. Hevia

3. From The Summer Palace 1860: Provenance and Politics
Nick Pearce

Part II: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain

4. The Yuanmingyuan and Design Reform in Britain
Kate Hill

5. "True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment": Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain
Stacey Pierson

6. "Chinese Gordon" and the Royal Engineers Museum
James Scott

7. "Rose-water Upon His Delicate Hands": Imperial and Imperialist Readings of the Hope Grant Ewer
Kevin McLoughlin

Part III: The Yuanmingyuan in France

8. Henri Bertin (1720-1792) and Images of the Yuanmingyuan in Eighteenth-century France
John Finlay

9. Empress Eugenie's Chinese Museum at the Chateau of Fontainebleau: An Unusual Decor in the "House of the Ages"
Vincent Droguet

10. Yuanmingyuan on Display: Ornamental Aesthetics at the Musee Chinois
Greg M. Thomas

Index

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• Museus e museologia
• Teoria da arqueologia
• Artes: temas gerais
• Historia da arte / estilos de arte e design
• História da Ásia
• História inglesa e irlandesa
• Guias de arte, museus, locais históricos e galerias
• Estudos regionais
• Antropologia
• Colonialismo, imperialismo e

Blanc De Chine;China;British Camp;Asia;Edmond De Goncourt;Europe;Napoleon III;Britain;Petit Trianon;United Kingdom;Summer Palace;England;Royal Engineers Museum;France;Chinese Museum;Kangxi Emperor;Chinese Government;art collection;European Style Palaces;Second Opium War;Lacquer Panels;nineteenth century;Qianlong Emperor;looting;Imperial Summer Palace;cultural vandalism;Hope Grant;museum studies;Duc De Morny;Chinese studies;Rylands Library;Asian studies;Duc De Chaulnes;cultural studies;National Museums Scotland;heritage studies;Imperial Taste;architecture;Porcelain Pagoda;history;Architectural Fragments;politics;Grand Salon;imperialism;Chinese Ornament;Henri Bertin;Unfinished Painting;Empress Eugenie;Sino French Relations;Musee Chinois;James L. Hevia;Nick Pearce;Kate Hill;Stacey Pierson;James Scott;Kevin McLoughlin;John Finlay;Vincent Droguet;Greg M. Thomas