title: Images of Europeans in the Chinese Woodblock Book Huangqing zhigongtu
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metadata.value: Samoylov, Nikolay A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Mayatskiy, Dmitriy I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-09T18:19:26Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-09T18:19:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Samoylov N. A., Mayatskiy D. I. Images of Europeans in the Chinese Woodblock Book Huangqing zhigongtu. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1259– 1271.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.415
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23689
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article explores the Chinese historical and ethnographic work of the second half of the
  18th century “Illustrated tributaries of the Qing Empire” (“Huangqing zhigongtu”). This book
  provides rich material for a systematic analysis of the views of the Chinese about European
  countries during the reign of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). Twenty eight images and
  descriptions of a number of European nations — Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Swedes, the
  English, the Dutch, etc. — which were found in the book, have been identified, classified,
  and analyzed. A range of issues and problems related to the content of the descriptions has
  been established and compared with the illustrations from the book. The article pays particular
  attention to identifying and explaining the anthropological and socio-cultural stereotypes
  that shaped the image of Europeans in China. The authors of this paper have found
  out that due to Catholic missionaries the Chinese compilers of “Huangqing zhigongtu” must
  have had enough information about Europe in the first part of the Qing period. Nevertheless,
  they made a large number of mistakes when describing the geographical location of several
  nations and relations between some of them. They also misunderstood some habits, traditions
  or anthropological features of their inhabitants. On the other hand, the compilers were more
  accurate and precise with regard to political and trade activities of the Europeans in China or
  near its frontier. Studying the “Huangqing zhigongtu” can shed light not only on important
  factors that formed the general picture of the Chinese worldview, but also contribute to a better
  understanding of motives that determined the foreign policy of the Qing Empire.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 19-09-00218 “The Chinese Historico-Ethnographic
  Album ‘Illustrated Tributaries of the Qing Empire’ (‘Huangqing zhigongtu’) and its Role in Studying
  the Chinese Worldview on Other Countries and Nations in the mid-18th Century”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: image studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: China and Europe
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of China
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural contacts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tributaries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Europeans
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Images of Europeans in the Chinese Woodblock Book Huangqing zhigongtu
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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