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.
Dr. Shanshan Chen received her Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Hong Kong in 2019. She also studied Art History and Asian History at the University of Iowa and Princeton University in the USA. She received a Crossing Borders Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, and a Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. Memorial Fellowship at Princeton University.
Introduction to the Macartney Embassy to China.- The Historical, Artistic, and Scientific Contexts of the Embassy.- Gift Exchange.- The Diplomacy and Politics of the Imagery of the Reception.- Empirical Science and the Topographic Aesthetic.- Picturesque Landscapes.- The Sublime and the Chinese Ruins.- Images of Natural History.- Picturing Chinese People.- Representation of Chinese Science.- Publications of the Macartney Embassy.- Two Print Books and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.- The Enduring Legacy of the Macartney Embassy.