Chinoiserie and the craze for all things Chinese.
External links:
- China Daily, “Lost relic from Yuanmingyuan bids high at Sotheby’s sale”
- China Daily, “Photos of Old Summer Palace a Hit Online”
- China News: Yuanmingyuan, 150 years after the fire
- Erik Ringmar, “Imperial Vertigo and the Themed Experience: Yuanmingyuan and Disneyland Compared”
- Erik Ringmar, Liberal Barbarism, New York: Palgrave, 2013
- Garnet Wolseley, “Narrative of the War with China in 1860”
- GB Times, “Lost treasure from Yuanmingyuan attracts high bids at Sotheby’s”
- Laurence Oliphant, “Narrative of Lord Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan”
- NewsGD.com, “Auction of looted sculptures hurts national sentiment”
- Review of Liberal Barbarism: The European Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China by Erik Ringmar
- Robert M’Ghee, “How We Got to Pekin,” 1862
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