Program
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Qing Encounters:
Artistic Exchanges between China and the West
Peking University, Beijing, China, October 10-13, 2012 Science Building no. 5, Room 438
(Enter through the southeast gate of the university and register to get in.
Go straight for some 100 meters, turn left and you will see the building.)
Wednesday, October 10
4:00-5:00
Registration
5:00-5:30
Welcome DING Ning (Peking University)
5:30-6:30
Keynote address: Richard VINOGRAD (Stanford University): Hybridity as History: Mediation and Materiality in Models of Cultural Exchange
6:30-8:00
Reception
Thursday, October 11
8:30-9:00
Symposium Introduction
Petra CHU (Seton Hall University)
Session 1: Collecting and Display
Chaired by Thomas GAEHTGENS (Getty Research Institute)
9:00-9:30
Greg THOMAS (Hong Kong University), Rhetorics of Display: Brighton Pavilion and the End of Chinoiserie.
9:30-10:00
SHIH Ching-Fei (National Palace Museum, Taiwan), Western Lathe-Turned Pieces and “Immortals’ Works” at the Qing Court, 1662-1795
10:00-10:15
Break (tea and cookies)
10:15-10:45
Kristel SMENTEK (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Global Circulations, Local Transformations: Objects and Cultural Encounter in the Eighteenth Century
10:45-11:15
Anna GRASSKAMP (Leiden University), Staging 'the foreign': Sino-European Material Culture on Display
11:15-12:00
Moderated discussion
12:00-2:00
Lunch
Session 2: Chinoiserie and Européenerie
Chaired by DING Ning (Peking University)
2:00-2:30
YU Peichin (National Palace Museum, Taiwan), Castiglione and Porcelain
2:30-3:00
Jennifer MILAM (University of Sidney), Catherine’s Caprice: A China of the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century Russia
3:00-3:15
Break
3:15-3:45
Mei-Mei RADO (Bard Graduate Center), A Textile Encounter: European Silks at the Qing Court during the Eighteenth-Century
3:45-4:15
Stacey SLOBODA (Southern Illinois University), Reassessing Chinoiserie: Commerce and Critical Ornament
4:15-5:00
Discussion
Friday, October 12
Session 3 Knowledge and Information Exchange
Moderated by ZHENG Gong (Fine Arts Institute China Academy of Arts)
9:00-9:30
Che Bing CHIU (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette), Western-European Plants of the Far-West in the Garden of the Emperor of China.
9:30-10:00
Nathalie MONNET (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris) Books as a Vehicle for Western Aesthetics at the Qing Court
10:00-10:30
John FINLAY (Independent Scholar), Imperial Art and Cultural Commerce: The ‘40 Views of the Yuanming Yuan’ in 18th-Century France
10:30-10:45
Break (tea and cookies)
10:45-11:15
CHAN Yuen Lai (University of Oxford), Exchange of Garden Knowledge in 18th- and 19th-century Canton
11:15-11:45
KOON Yeewan (Hong Kong University), Narrating the City: Depictions of Street Life in Guangdong Paintings.
11:45-12:30
Moderated discussion
12:30-2:00
Lunch
2:00-5:00
Excursion to Forbidden City and Clock and Watch Museum
Saturday, October 12
Session 4: Modes and Meanings of Techniques of Representation
Chaired by LI Song (Peking University)
9:00-9:30
Marcia REED (Getty Research Institute), Creating Imperial Impressions: The Qianlong Emperor's Print Suites.
9:30-10:00
LIU Lihung (New York University, IFA), Encounters with Shadows: An intercultural Perspective on Ying in Chinese Painting
10-10:30
Kristina KLEUTGHEN (Washington University, St. Louis), The Function and Significance of Linear Perspective in 18th-century China
10:30-10:45
Break (tea and cookies)
10:45-11:15
MA Ya-Chen (Nationa Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), War and Empire: Images of Battles in Qianlong’s Reign
11:15-11:45
ZHUANG Yue (University of Zürich/ Tianjin University), Hatchings in the Void: The Perspective Effect and Ideas of Order in Bishu shanzhuang shi and Matteo Ripa's Views of Jehol
11:45-12:30
Moderated discussion
12:30-2:00
Lunch
2:00-5:00
Excursion to Yuan Ming Yuan, with introductory lecture by Che Bing Chiu and tour
6:00-8:00
Closing dinner for all participants and organizers
Qing Encounters:
Artistic Exchanges between China and the West
Peking University, Beijing, China, October 10-13, 2012 Science Building no. 5, Room 438
(Enter through the southeast gate of the university and register to get in.
Go straight for some 100 meters, turn left and you will see the building.)
Wednesday, October 10
4:00-5:00
Registration
5:00-5:30
Welcome DING Ning (Peking University)
5:30-6:30
Keynote address: Richard VINOGRAD (Stanford University): Hybridity as History: Mediation and Materiality in Models of Cultural Exchange
6:30-8:00
Reception
Thursday, October 11
8:30-9:00
Symposium Introduction
Petra CHU (Seton Hall University)
Session 1: Collecting and Display
Chaired by Thomas GAEHTGENS (Getty Research Institute)
9:00-9:30
Greg THOMAS (Hong Kong University), Rhetorics of Display: Brighton Pavilion and the End of Chinoiserie.
9:30-10:00
SHIH Ching-Fei (National Palace Museum, Taiwan), Western Lathe-Turned Pieces and “Immortals’ Works” at the Qing Court, 1662-1795
10:00-10:15
Break (tea and cookies)
10:15-10:45
Kristel SMENTEK (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Global Circulations, Local Transformations: Objects and Cultural Encounter in the Eighteenth Century
10:45-11:15
Anna GRASSKAMP (Leiden University), Staging 'the foreign': Sino-European Material Culture on Display
11:15-12:00
Moderated discussion
12:00-2:00
Lunch
Session 2: Chinoiserie and Européenerie
Chaired by DING Ning (Peking University)
2:00-2:30
YU Peichin (National Palace Museum, Taiwan), Castiglione and Porcelain
2:30-3:00
Jennifer MILAM (University of Sidney), Catherine’s Caprice: A China of the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century Russia
3:00-3:15
Break
3:15-3:45
Mei-Mei RADO (Bard Graduate Center), A Textile Encounter: European Silks at the Qing Court during the Eighteenth-Century
3:45-4:15
Stacey SLOBODA (Southern Illinois University), Reassessing Chinoiserie: Commerce and Critical Ornament
4:15-5:00
Discussion
Friday, October 12
Session 3 Knowledge and Information Exchange
Moderated by ZHENG Gong (Fine Arts Institute China Academy of Arts)
9:00-9:30
Che Bing CHIU (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette), Western-European Plants of the Far-West in the Garden of the Emperor of China.
9:30-10:00
Nathalie MONNET (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris) Books as a Vehicle for Western Aesthetics at the Qing Court
10:00-10:30
John FINLAY (Independent Scholar), Imperial Art and Cultural Commerce: The ‘40 Views of the Yuanming Yuan’ in 18th-Century France
10:30-10:45
Break (tea and cookies)
10:45-11:15
CHAN Yuen Lai (University of Oxford), Exchange of Garden Knowledge in 18th- and 19th-century Canton
11:15-11:45
KOON Yeewan (Hong Kong University), Narrating the City: Depictions of Street Life in Guangdong Paintings.
11:45-12:30
Moderated discussion
12:30-2:00
Lunch
2:00-5:00
Excursion to Forbidden City and Clock and Watch Museum
Saturday, October 12
Session 4: Modes and Meanings of Techniques of Representation
Chaired by LI Song (Peking University)
9:00-9:30
Marcia REED (Getty Research Institute), Creating Imperial Impressions: The Qianlong Emperor's Print Suites.
9:30-10:00
LIU Lihung (New York University, IFA), Encounters with Shadows: An intercultural Perspective on Ying in Chinese Painting
10-10:30
Kristina KLEUTGHEN (Washington University, St. Louis), The Function and Significance of Linear Perspective in 18th-century China
10:30-10:45
Break (tea and cookies)
10:45-11:15
MA Ya-Chen (Nationa Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), War and Empire: Images of Battles in Qianlong’s Reign
11:15-11:45
ZHUANG Yue (University of Zürich/ Tianjin University), Hatchings in the Void: The Perspective Effect and Ideas of Order in Bishu shanzhuang shi and Matteo Ripa's Views of Jehol
11:45-12:30
Moderated discussion
12:30-2:00
Lunch
2:00-5:00
Excursion to Yuan Ming Yuan, with introductory lecture by Che Bing Chiu and tour
6:00-8:00
Closing dinner for all participants and organizers