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Arts, Volume 13, Issue 5 (October 2024) – 1 article

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Constructing British Selfhood through Depictions of China: The Art of the Macartney Embassy
by Yushu Chen and Bing Huang
Arts 2024, 13(5), 136; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13050136 - 23 Aug 2024
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The Macartney Embassy, the first official British diplomatic mission to China, contributed to the visual record and understanding of China in Britain. The embassy artists were ambitious in their mission to deliver authentic visual knowledge of China to the British at the same [...] Read more.
The Macartney Embassy, the first official British diplomatic mission to China, contributed to the visual record and understanding of China in Britain. The embassy artists were ambitious in their mission to deliver authentic visual knowledge of China to the British at the same time that they were subconsciously influenced by both the old chinoiserie tradition, and the nascent British Enlightenment thought process. In contrast to contemporary Britain’s scientific and humanitarian advancements, the embassy’s portrayal of China was pastoral, barbaric, and autocratic, allowing the British to revel in the humanism and progressivism of their own values and social system. Full article
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