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1. The major sources for the European palaces used in this essay are:

Malone, Carroll Brown. History of the Summer Palaces under the Ch’ing Dynasty (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1934).

Wong, Young-tsu. A Paradise Lost: The Imperial Garden Yuanming Yuan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001).

Strassberg, Richard E., “War and Peace: Four Intercultural Landscapes,” in China on Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century, Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè, eds. (Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2007), pp. 88-137.

The quotation in this section is from Beurdeley, Cecile and Michel. Giuseppe Castiglione: A Jesuit Painter at the Court of the Chinese Emperor, transl. Michael Bullock (Rutland, Vt., and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1971), p. 68, as cited by Wong, p. 60.

2. Strassberg, p. 120

3. Malone, p. 141

4. Strassberg, p. 107

5. Strassberg, p. 109

6. Quoted in Malone, p. 160

7. Landry-Deron, Isabelle. “Portraits croisés Kangxi et Louis XIV,” in Kangxi, Empereur de Chine: 1662-1722. La Cité interdite à Versailles (Musée national du chateau de Versailles, 27 janvier-9 mai 2004. Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 2004), pp. 59-63. Other essays in this catalog document the fascinating cultural exchange between these two monarchs.

8. Strassberg, p. 120.

9. This album is discussed in China:The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, Evelyn S. Rawski and Jessica Rawson, eds. (London: Royal Academy of the Arts, 2005), pp. 429-30.

10. This painting isdiscussed in China:The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, Evelyn S. Rawski and Jessica Rawson, eds. (London: Royal Academy of the Arts, 2005), p. 405.

11. This painting is reproduced and discussed in Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits, Jan Stuart and Evelyn S. Rawski, eds. (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2001). In a recent exhibition of this painting (seen December 3, 2011), the Sackler Gallery states, “This portrait may reflect the young prince’s 1752 appointment as the head of the Imperial Workshops, which were engaged at the time in planning the new palaces.”

Chapter 2

1. Strassberg, p. 109

2. Strassberg, p. 120.

3. Wong, p. 63.

4. Malone, p.147, Wong, p. 61.

5. Wong, pp. 63.

6.Malone, pp. 149-154

7. Malone, p. 155.

8. Malone, p. 155.

9. Malone, pp. 155-6.

10. Wong, pp. 64-5. An apparent typographical error mistakes Louis XVI for Louis XV.

11. Wong, p. 64.

12. Malone, p. 159.

13. Malone, p. 159.

CREDITS

“The Garden of Perfect Brightness ll: The European Palaces and Pavilions of the Yuanmingyuan” was developed by Visualizing Cultures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and presented on MIT OpenCourseWare.

John W. Dower
Project Director
Emeritus Professor of History

Shigeru Miyagawa
Project Director
Professor of Linguistics
Kochi Prefecture-John Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture

Ellen Sebring
Creative Director

Scott Shunk
Program Director

Andrew Burstein
Media Designer

Lillian M. Li
Author, essay
Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Professor of History
Swarthmore College

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