Oiseries work both ways: on exchanges between China and the West

Qing Encounters examines interactions in visual culture between China and the West in the long 18th century (1680-1830). Many books look at the impact of Qing (1644-1912) culture on Europe, but here the encounters are considered from both an Eastern and Western perspective. Ways of ordering information are as individual as fingerprints and here 16 essays are arranged in four parts: collection and display; knowledge and information exchange between China and the West; modes and meanings of (adopt