Kenneth Lapatin is associate curator in the Department of Antiquities at the J

this volume will be of interest to conservators

others are attributed to artists known only by their works

the late founder of New York’s New Museum

In mid-1834 he began to experiment with light-sensitive chemistry

Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West Leonard Freed Kenneth Lapatin is associate curatorEdited by Petra ten Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the contact between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cultures visions of novelty