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Conference Paper: The Victorian remaking of the Celestial Empire: images of late Qing China from the illustrated London news
Title | The Victorian remaking of the Celestial Empire: images of late Qing China from the illustrated London news |
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Issue Date | 2014 |
Citation | The 2014 Annual Conference of the Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 10-12 July 2014. How to Cite? |
Abstract | This study takes a cross-cultural perspective to explore a set of visual representations on late Qing China transported to Britain through the Illustrated London News. As the first pictorial of its kind in the Victorian Age, the Illustrated London News introduced a new mode of information production and transmission between the two confronting empires, offering British readers timely and vivid illustrations on both decisive events and daily life of ordinary people in the Celestial Empire. However, a full-scale critical examination of the several hundred China-related pictures from the Illustrated London News reveals a complex image-making process that goes beyond what scholars have appreciated about the pictorial’s objectivity and factuality. These Victorian images of late Qing China interweaved value judgments, ideological interests, and ethnocentric emotions at varied degrees, thus bearing a distinctive character in between reality and imagination. Based on in-depth analysis of selected illustrations on late Qing rulership, diplomacy, the opium trade, warfare and insurrections, as well as social customs, this study aims to solve the largely unattended question on how the Victorian ways of “looking” have turned the Celestial Empire of China into a culturally and ethnically different other, no longer friendly, respectable, and exotic, within the British-led modern world order. |
Description | Conference Theme: Victorian Transport Panel 2 - 2A: Asia to and fro |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/205010 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Song, G | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-20T01:18:37Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-20T01:18:37Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2014 Annual Conference of the Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 10-12 July 2014. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/205010 | - |
dc.description | Conference Theme: Victorian Transport | - |
dc.description | Panel 2 - 2A: Asia to and fro | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study takes a cross-cultural perspective to explore a set of visual representations on late Qing China transported to Britain through the Illustrated London News. As the first pictorial of its kind in the Victorian Age, the Illustrated London News introduced a new mode of information production and transmission between the two confronting empires, offering British readers timely and vivid illustrations on both decisive events and daily life of ordinary people in the Celestial Empire. However, a full-scale critical examination of the several hundred China-related pictures from the Illustrated London News reveals a complex image-making process that goes beyond what scholars have appreciated about the pictorial’s objectivity and factuality. These Victorian images of late Qing China interweaved value judgments, ideological interests, and ethnocentric emotions at varied degrees, thus bearing a distinctive character in between reality and imagination. Based on in-depth analysis of selected illustrations on late Qing rulership, diplomacy, the opium trade, warfare and insurrections, as well as social customs, this study aims to solve the largely unattended question on how the Victorian ways of “looking” have turned the Celestial Empire of China into a culturally and ethnically different other, no longer friendly, respectable, and exotic, within the British-led modern world order. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annual Conference of the Australasian Victorian Studies Association, AVSA 2014 | en_US |
dc.title | The Victorian remaking of the Celestial Empire: images of late Qing China from the illustrated London news | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Song, G: songg@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Song, G=rp01151 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 236897 | en_US |