Hong Kong Palace Museum

Throughout his long sixty-year reign (1736–1795), the Qianlong Emperor was fascinated by newly invented objects and art styles from Europe. In this lecture, Professor Wu Hung explores the interconnections between "object", "painting", and the trompe l'oeil style that the emperor was so fond of. Two important palaces in the Forbidden City, the Hall of Three Rarities (Sanxi Tang) and the Lodge of Retirement (Juanqin Zhai), are taken as examples for this examination.

Hosted by the Hong Kong Palace Museum, this talk is an event in the "HKPM 1st Anniversary Talk Series". It is also part of the "Public Lecture Series: The Global Impact of Research in Chinese Art by Wu Hung", co-organised by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's Division of Humanities, Global China Center, and Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with the University of Hong Kong (Centre for Chinese Architecture and Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture), The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

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Date	8 October 2023 (Sunday)
Time	3:00 pm–4:30 pm
Venue	The Hong Kong Jockey Club Auditorium, Hong Kong Palace Museum
Tickets	Free
Language	Putonghua, with simultaneous interpretation in English, no subtitles are available

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Professor Wu Hung

Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Director, Center for the Art of East Asia, The University of Chicago

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Hong Kong Palace Museum | HKPM 1st Anniversary Talk Series: One or Two? Emperor Qianlong's Mirrors and Mirror Images

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