Titles
- Forbidden City
- Glorious Reign Of Emperor Qianlong
Attribution
Chuimei Ho and Bennet BronsonPublication Details
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This sumptuous new book brings together some of the most priceless national treasures in China, housed in Beijing’s royal palace complex, the Forbidden City, and collected by Emperor Qianlong. Providing an introduction to the life at the emperor’s palaces, and offering a comprehensive view of imperial art during Qianlong’s reign, Splendors of China’s Forbidden City is the only work in any Western language devoted exclusively to the court arts of China in the mid-eighteenth century, their last golden age. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Qianlong, — Emperor of China, — 1711-1799 — Art collections — Exhibitions
- Forbidden City (Beijing, China) — Exhibitions
- Art, Chinese — Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912 — Exhibitions
- Art objects, Chinese — Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912 — Exhibitions
- Art — Illinois — Chicago — Exhibitions
- Art objects — Illinois — Chicago — Exhibitions
- China — History — Qianlong, 1736-1795 — Exhibitions
Notes
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Splendors of China’s Forbidden City: the Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong" held at the Field Museum, Chicago, Mar. 12-Sept. 12, 2004
- The exhibition "was developed by the Field Museum in cooperation with the Palace Museum, Beijing."
- "This illustrated book brings together some of China’s most priceless national treasures, the magnificent legacy of Qianlong’s lifestyle, connoisseurship, and patronage, which gathered calligraphy and paintings, ceramics and bronzes, bamboo and jade carving, lacquerwork and enamelwork within its scope. Many of these artifacts - from what was then the richest empire in the world - have never before been published. Taking as its focus the personal and public life of the emperor and his court, Splendors of China’s Forbidden City also pictures the challenges inherent in ruling such a diverse nation, and how Qianlong met those challenges, not least by establishing standards of religious ceremony and court practice, and enforcing codes of dress and adornment." "In Splendors of China’s Forbidden City the story of one of China’s most outstanding emperors is vividly evoked using original texts and artifacts. Offering an imprecedented insights into one of the most glittering courts in world history, this groundbreaking study is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Chinese culture."- -BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Foreword : the field museum
- Foreword : palace museum
- Ch. I. The last Chinese empire
- Introduction : Qianlong
- The Manchus before the conquest
- The Manchus seize power
- New rulers in old palaces
- Boxes within boxes : the geography of imperial life
- The hierarchy of the eight banners / Pamela Crossley
- Cousins of the Manchus / Pamela Crossley
- Qianlong’s Ode to Mukden / Mark C. Elliott
- The Yuanming Yuan summer palace / Cary Y. Liu - - Nurgaci’s seven grievances against the Ming / Zhu Chengru
- Ch. II. Symbols of imperial power
- Introduction : the son of heaven
- Imperial environments
- Imperial adornment : accessories
- Imperial adornment : mens’s clothing
- Imperial adornment : women’s clothing
- Imperial actions
- The mansion of heavenly purity / Chuimei Ho
- Emperor Qianlong’s thrones / Hu Desheng
- Ascending Mount Tai / Susan Naquin
- Manchu ladies’ styles : an invented tradition / Dorothy Ko
- High heels and platform shoes / Dorothy Ko
- The empress’s silkworms / Evelyn S. Rawski
- Ch. III. The emperor in action
- Introduction : how to be an emperor
- Ruling
- The imperial workplaces
- Touring
- Martial arts and hunting
- The riches of Heshen / Bennet Bronson and Chuimei Ho
- An active emperor slows down / Bennet Bronson
- Macartney’s unsuccessful mission / William Watson
- Manchus and tigers and bears / Mark C. Elliott
- Ch. IV. Religions of the Qianlong court
- Introduction : public and private faiths
- Shamanism
- Buddhism
- Daoism
- Islam and Christianity
- The state religion
- Ancestor worship and Confucianism
- The Qianlong emperor as Bodhisattva / Terese Tse Bartholomew
- The storied building of Buddhist brilliance / Wang Jiapeng
- The north God at the north gate / Wang Yaogong
- A gold stupa for the Empress Dowager’s hair / Terese Tse Bartholomew
- The year-end ritual for the imperial ancestors / Li Zhonglu
- Bixia and the seven stars / Chuimei Ho and Bennet Bronson
- Ch. V. Family life in the palace
- Introduction : the hidden world of the inner court
- The mother and grandmothers of the emperor
- The wives of the emperor
- Only birds in gilded cages?
- Raising an emperor
- Dining in the palace
- Lang Shining or Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian painter at the Qing court / Nie Chongzheng
- An empress cuts her hair / Chuimei Ho and Bennet Bronson
- Rong Fei and the fragrant concubine / Evelyn S. Rawski
- Provisions for palace ladies / Chuimei Ho
- Ch. VI. The emperor as a private person
- Introduction : image and reality
- Artist and collector - - Collector and patron
- At leisure
- Growing old
- Qianlong and paintings : astute connoisseur, serial defacer, or both? / Jan Stuart
- A memorial to the emperor on porcelain
- Qianlong as a collector of ceramics / Jan Stuart
- Monuments in the jade-carving industry of the Qianlong period : two jade boulders / Yang Boda
- Voltaire on Qianlong versus Frederick the Great / Bennet Bronson
ISBN
- 1858942586
- 1858942039
- 9781858942582
- 9781858942032
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