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Imaging Diplomacy: The Meridian Gate and the Making of European Perspectives on China (1655–1795)
Imaging Diplomacy: The Meridian Gate and the Making of European Perspectives on China (1655–1795)
Lecture by Sylvia Tongyan Qiu, Ph.D. Student in Art History, UCLA, and recipient of the 2023–24 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship In 1692, Evert Ysbrants Ides, a Danish merchant living in the German quarters of Moscow, was sent to the Kangxi Emperor by Peter the Great as his ambassador. An account of his journey,...