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Chinoiseries for the Qing: A French Gift of Tapestries to the Qianlong Emperor
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In 1766 a set of chinoiserie tapestries produced by the Beauvais manufactory was presented to the Qianlong emperor on behalf of the French administration. Chinoiserie has conventionally been understood as a frivolous or superficial European response to China’s material culture; viewed from this perspective, the tapestries would seem to be a most unsuitable gift for the emperor. Yet Qianlong not only received the hangings, but he had a European-style palace built to house them. This article examines the circumstances surrounding the French offering, the Chinese priests who brought the gift from France to Beijing, and the meanings the tapestries could communicate in a diplomatic context marked not by official contact between the French and the Qing, but through an informal diplomacy negotiated through objects.
Title: Chinoiseries for the Qing: A French Gift of Tapestries to the Qianlong Emperor
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In 1766 a set of chinoiserie tapestries produced by the Beauvais manufactory was presented to the Qianlong emperor on behalf of the French administration.
Chinoiserie has conventionally been understood as a frivolous or superficial European response to China’s material culture; viewed from this perspective, the tapestries would seem to be a most unsuitable gift for the emperor.
Yet Qianlong not only received the hangings, but he had a European-style palace built to house them.
This article examines the circumstances surrounding the French offering, the Chinese priests who brought the gift from France to Beijing, and the meanings the tapestries could communicate in a diplomatic context marked not by official contact between the French and the Qing, but through an informal diplomacy negotiated through objects.
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