Main entry:

Thiriez, Régine.

Title & Author:

Barbarian lens : western photographers of the Qianlong emperor's European palaces / Régine Thiriez.

Publication:

Australia : Gordon and Breach Publishers, ©1998.

Description:

xxiii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Documenting the image, 1068-6894 ; v. 6

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index.
I Photography, Beijing and European Palaces 1 -- 1. Early Photography in Beijing, 1860-1873 3 -- 2. Foreigners in Beijing, 1860-1925 17 -- 3. Practicing Photography in China, 1860-1925 27 -- 4. The European Palaces in the Photographers' Time 35 -- 5. The European Palaces in the Eighteenth Century 49 -- 6. The Rape of the Summer Palace and Its Aftermath 55 -- II Photographers of the European Palaces 67 -- The Maritime Customs Men in the 1870s -- 7. The Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs 69 -- 8. Thomas Child -- The Photographer of Old Beijing 75 -- 9. Ernst Ohlmer -- Sailor, Photographer, Customs Officer and Porcelain Collector 85 -- 10. Theophile Piry -- Forty-Five Years in China Through a Camera Lens 93 -- From the Boxer Rebellion to the Warlords -- 11. Alfons Freiherr Mumm von Schwarzenstein -- A German Envoy in 1901 China 103 -- 12. From the 1911 Revolution to the Warlords 107 -- The Individuals 107 -- The Group of Photographs 114 -- Appendix 3 The European Palaces of the Yuanmingyuan: Research and Photography 129 -- Appendix 4 Paul Champion 135.

Summary:

"In 1860, combined Western European armies brought ruin to the treasured Summer Palace of the Qing emperors near Beijing. However, other Westerners contributed to the garden's remembrance through their photographs of the only architecture left standing after the fire: the European Palaces built by Jesuits in the 1750s for the great Qianlong emperor. The handful of photographers who documented these ruins between 1860 and 1925 came from many different countries. Some were professionals, the majority were not, yet all contributed to the memories of a world that has come to symbolize the losses China suffered through foreign ambition." "Regine Thiriez studies those photographers who provided such rare views of the European Palaces, revealing how the lives of these men in China, the interaction that took place among them, and the context of foreign presence and photography in Beijing further illuminated their work."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)
Publisher description

ISBN:

9057005190
9789057005190

Subject:

Photographers China Beijing History.
Palaces China 18th century.
Architecture, Chinese European influences.
Jesuit architecture China Beijing.
Photographes Chine Pékin Histoire.
Palais Chine 18e siècle.
Architecture chinoise Influence européenne.
Architecture jésuite Chine Pékin.
15.75 history of Asia.
20.03 methods and techniques of the art sciences.
Buildings
Jesuit architecture
Palaces
Photographers
Architekturfotografie
Europäer
Geschichte
Palast
Fotografie
Foto's.
Fotografen.
Westerlingen.
Zomerpaleizen.
Geschichte 1860-1923.
Yuan Ming Yuan (Beijing, China)
Beijing (China) Buildings, structures, etc.
Yuan Ming Yuan (Pékin, Chine)
China
China Beijing
China Beijing Yuan Ming Yuan

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Documenting the image ; v. 6.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201922
Call No.: DS795.8.Y8 T4 1998
Status: Available