Global Architecture for Eighteenth-Century Beijing - Building Qing Enlightenments

This book reinterprets architecture in Beijing during the reigns of the Kangxi (1661-1722), Yongzheng (1723-1735) and Qianlong (1736-1795) emperors in the eighteenth-century. More specifically, it views the building processes of the four churches and the Western palaces in the Yuanming Yuan garden as an example of cultural dialogue in the context of the Enlightenment.

About the author

Pedro Luengo is Professor of the History of Art at the Universidad de Sevilla. He specialises in eighteenth-century architecture in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. His previous publications include The Convents of Manila: Globalized Architecture during the Iberian Union (2017) and Manila, 1645 (2020).

Summary

From these emerging technologies, as well as written sources, it becomes possible first to reinterpret Beijing as an imperial capital where religious tolerance and cosmopolitanism were increasing, and second to re-evaluate the entire Yuanming Yuan Garden complex as a miniature version of Beijing.

Product details

• Authors: Pedro Luengo
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781800856189
• ISBN: 978-1-80085-618-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Oxford University Studies in t; Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture