EASTASN 385B: Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800 (ARTHIST 185, ARTHIST 385, CHINA 185A, CHINA 385A)

Course Description

The dynamic period of late Ming and early Qing dynasty China, roughly 1500-1800 CE, was marked by political crisis and conquest, but also by China's participation in global systems of trade and knowledge exchanges involving porcelain, illustrated books, garden designs and systems of perspectival representation. Topics will include Innovations in urban centers of painting and print culture, politically inflected painting, and cultural syncretism in court painting and garden design.