The Chinese Impact

Images and Ideas of China in the Dutch Golden Age

By Gast / September 17, 2017

Dirk Huylebrouck writes about the “Chinese” sailing chariot that was on view in Barbarians and Philosophers on the Flemish popular science magazine, EOS. A shorter article appeared in the newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, which appears in a print run of a whopping 1.800.000 copies.

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The Chinese Impact

Conference Netherlandish Art and the World, 25-27 October

Photo impression of the performance of Vondel’s Zungchin

14 December: lecture “Embassies to China” by Michael Keevak, Utrecht

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Arjan Glas over Barbaren en Wijsgeren in Nederlands Dagblad, 19 mei

Wieteke van Zeil over Barbaren en Wijsgeren in De Volkskrant, 6 april

T. Dijkstra & T. Weststeijn, ‘Constructing Confucius in the Low Countries’, De Zeventiende Eeuw 32.2 (2016), pp.137–164

Dijkstra, ‘It is said that…The Chinese Rites Controversy in Dutch newspapers and periodicals in the seventeenth century’, Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis 23 (2016), p. 172-191.

Gesterkamp & T. Weststeijn, “A New Identity for Rubens’s ‘Korean Man’: Portrait of the Chinese Merchant Wu Pu.” Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 66 (2016).