BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:454@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240312T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240312T140000 DTSTAMP:20240216T155034Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/imaging-diplomacy/ SUMMARY:Imaging Diplomacy: The Meridian Gate and the Making of European Per spectives on China (1655–1795) DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Sylvia Tongyan Qiu\, Ph.D. Student in Art History\, University of California\, Los Angeles. Recipient of the 2023–24 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship\n\nIn 1692\, Evert Ysbrants Ides\, a Danish merchant living in the German quarters of Moscow\, was se nt to the Kangxi Emperor by Peter the Great as his ambassador. An account of his journey\, Three Years of Travel from Moscow to China: thro’ Great Ustiga\, Siriania\, Permia\, Sibiria\, Daour\, Great Tartary\, &\;c. t o Peking was published in 1706 together with fascinating illustrations. Id es wrote: “coming to the outer Gate of the Castle\, there is a Pillar\, with some Characters Engraven on it\, where I was told I must alight\, acc ording to their Custom\; so that I went on foot through five outer Courts. ” As Ides recounts his audience with the Manchu emperor—a brief episod e in his long and treacherous journey across various terrains of the Euras ian landmass—the engraved images in the book trace the embassy’s passa ge into the innermost spaces of the Forbidden City\, from the Meridian Gat e\, through the Gate of Supreme Harmony\, and finally to the Hall of Supre me Harmony. By comparing the visual representations of European embassies ’ entry into the Forbidden City in printed ambassadorial fictions with Q ing court archives\, Qiu will discuss how the architecture of the imperial palace was transformed into a theatrical backdrop\, an optical device\, a topography of overlapping fantasies\, and a prototype for chinoiserie th rough the re-enactment of Eurasian diplomacy in printed media.\n\nSylvia T ongyan Qiu is a first-year Ph.D. student in Art History at UCLA. Her resea rch explores the intersections of early modern globalization and the visua l and material culture of the Qing court. Her dissertation examines the re lationship between image-making and diplomacy at Eurasian courts between t he 17th and 18th centuries\, specifically\, the trans-medial construction of European visions of the Qing Empire through illustrated ambassadorial a ccounts. She received her MA in Art History from UCLA and BA in History of Art from University College London. She held internships and volunteered at the Palace Museum in Beijing\, the British Museum\, and Sir John Soane Museum. Her previous project at the Clark Library investigated a Qianlong- era celestial globe inlaid with pearls and explored the complex material\, religious\, ideological\, and metaphysical translations that took place i n the making of this anomalous globe.\n\n\n\nThe lecture will take place v ia Zoom. To register to attend\, please fill out the form here.\n\n\n\nIma ge: The Embassadors Introduction into the Audience Hall\, Ides\, Evert Ysb rants. Three Years Travels from Moscow Over-Land to China: Thro’ Great U stiga\, Siriania\, Permia\, Sibiria\, Daour\, Great Tartary\, &\;c. to Peking. London: W Freeman\, 1706. Clark Library DS708 .I19E 1706.\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02 /Qiu-image_Embassadors-Introduction.jpg CATEGORIES:Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR