TOPIC 3: The changing literary and visual representations of China by Westerners in the history
One of the oldest countries in the world, China, is also one of the four ancient civilization. For long stretches of history, China had their glory but also had a hard time, and the changed of China also changed impression on westerners by their literary or visual representations.
In the 13th - 14th century, Genghis Khan established the Mongolia regime, built the Empire of Mongolia and began his territorial expansion. At that time European were having a bad time of their Crusade, they lose the Jerusalem to the Muslims, Emperor Frederick II refused to take part of in the fifth Crusade and had conflicts with the Pope. After the death of Pope Celestine …show more content…
During the Renaissance on 14th -16th century, more and more technologies invented, such as Technical drawings, Cosmology and Cartography. In this period with a rapid development of art, the representation of European is not also on literal but also on visual. In 17th -18th century, there were more and more western missionaries went to China, they did not make a big achievement but they spread Chinese culture and technology well. Chinoiserie became popular at that time, and some artist combines Chinoiserie and Rococo style together, such as famous French painter Antonie Watteau and François Boucher, both of them good at Rococo style, although they haven’t been to China, some of theirs paintings about China still fit the facts. The reason of that is because there were a lot of trades and culture integration between China and Europe at that time. François Boucher’s painting illustrated some European nobles used Chinoiserie decorations in their house. Some of European attempt to learn Chinese techniques in porcelain making, It means European had a good feeling of China, at least they love Chinese cultural products. Not only the painting, the European architects also interested in the Chinese garden. They mixed Chinese issues to European garden called Anglo-Chinese …show more content…
The results of that were those countries own the cheapest labor force but there were also a lot of Anti-Chinese Reactions, the propaganda posters by the cartoon of Anti-Chinese or some Chinese villain made by novels or films which were popular at that time, such as Fu Manchu. However, the fictional character like detective Charlie Chan was positive and improve the impression of China, but Charlie Chan is still a Chinese with old fashioned. There were other cartoons that make fun of Chinese, such as “The Marching Chinese” (by Simon & Schuster, 1929-31-34), it was saying China has a huge population. In the modern time period, as the technology improve, the film became a new presentation, and cartoon with implied meaning was popular at that time
One of the oldest countries in the world, China, is also one of the four ancient civilization. For long stretches of history, China had their glory but also had a hard time, and the changed of China also changed impression on westerners by their literary or visual representations.
In the 13th - 14th century, Genghis Khan established the Mongolia regime, built the Empire of Mongolia and began his territorial expansion. At that time European were having a bad time of their Crusade, they lose the Jerusalem to the Muslims, Emperor Frederick II refused to take part of in the fifth Crusade and had conflicts with the Pope. After the death of Pope Celestine …show more content…
During the Renaissance on 14th -16th century, more and more technologies invented, such as Technical drawings, Cosmology and Cartography. In this period with a rapid development of art, the representation of European is not also on literal but also on visual. In 17th -18th century, there were more and more western missionaries went to China, they did not make a big achievement but they spread Chinese culture and technology well. Chinoiserie became popular at that time, and some artist combines Chinoiserie and Rococo style together, such as famous French painter Antonie Watteau and François Boucher, both of them good at Rococo style, although they haven’t been to China, some of theirs paintings about China still fit the facts. The reason of that is because there were a lot of trades and culture integration between China and Europe at that time. François Boucher’s painting illustrated some European nobles used Chinoiserie decorations in their house. Some of European attempt to learn Chinese techniques in porcelain making, It means European had a good feeling of China, at least they love Chinese cultural products. Not only the painting, the European architects also interested in the Chinese garden. They mixed Chinese issues to European garden called Anglo-Chinese …show more content…
The results of that were those countries own the cheapest labor force but there were also a lot of Anti-Chinese Reactions, the propaganda posters by the cartoon of Anti-Chinese or some Chinese villain made by novels or films which were popular at that time, such as Fu Manchu. However, the fictional character like detective Charlie Chan was positive and improve the impression of China, but Charlie Chan is still a Chinese with old fashioned. There were other cartoons that make fun of Chinese, such as “The Marching Chinese” (by Simon & Schuster, 1929-31-34), it was saying China has a huge population. In the modern time period, as the technology improve, the film became a new presentation, and cartoon with implied meaning was popular at that time