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Western Photographers of the Qianlong Emperor's European Palaces

By: Regine Thiriez

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Hardcover | 20 October 1998 | Edition Number 1

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218 Pages

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25.4 x 17.0 x 1.91

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In 1860, combined Western European armies brought ruin to the treasured Summer Palace of the Qing emperors near Beijing. However, other Westerners contributed to the garden's remembrance through their photographs of the only architecture left standing after the fire: the European Palaces built by Jesuits in the 1750s for the great Qianlong emperor. The handful of photographers who documented these ruins between 1860 and 1925 came from many different countries. Some were professionals, the majority were not, yet all contributed to the memories of a world that has come to symbolize the losses China suffered through foreign ambition.
Regine Thiriez studies those photographers who provided such rare views of the European Palaces, revealing how the lives of these men in China, the interaction that took place among them, and the context of foreign presence and photography in Beijing further illuminated their work.

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"All historians of China now have a major debt to pay to Dr. Thiriez for her masterful study of the world of photography in nineteenth century China....The book itself is especially fun for anyone who has ever done historical research....In fact, 'the historian as detective' is a major feature of the book, a subject all research historians understand and that few actually reveal in the writings....Clearly this is a work which has many dimensions and one which a very large number of historians are likely to profit from. I recommend the book highly." -Steven A. Leibo, Asia Book Review, January 2000 "Fascinating....Apart from having accomplished the important task of assembling and analyzing these photographs, Thiriez has a fine eye for the telling detail....This book will be of great interest to virtually all those interested in nineteenth-century China, and in the colonial angle from which these photographs tell so many different stories, as well as those concerned with the history of photography itself." -Joanna Waley-Cohen, New York University of Arts Asiatiques "Regine Thiriez's level of scholarship is unmatched in this field ... an innovative and worthwhile book that will make significant advances in the study of late imperial China and the encounter between China and the rest of the world." -John Finlay of Curator of Asian Art, Brooklyn Museum

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