In Beyond Chinoiserie, historians of art, literature, and material culture address artistic relations between China and the West during the nineteenth century, a time when Western powers’ attempts at extending a sphere of influence in China led to increasingly hostile interactions.

List of Illustrations Introduction: Beyond Chinoiserie  Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Jennifer Milam 1 The China Trade and the Classical Tradition in Federal America  Patricia Johnston 2 Jefferson’s Interest in China and the Gongs of Monticello  Jennifer Milam 3 Copying in Reverse: China Trade Paintings on Glass  Maggie M. Cao 4 Étienne-Jean Delécluze, Art from China, and Nineteenth-Century French Painting  Kristel Smentek 5 Staging China, Japan, and Siam at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867  Meredith Martin 6 Victor Hugo and the Romantic Dream of China  Petra ten-Doesschate Chu 7 Chrysanthemums and Cultivated Visions of the Victorian Garden  Elizabeth Chang 8 The Musée d’Ennery and the Shifting Reception of Nineteenth-Century French Chinoiseries  Elizabeth Emery 9 Fashion, Chinoiserie, and the Transnational: Material Translations between China, Japan and Britain  Sarah Cheang 10 From Shanghai to Brussels: The Tushanwan Orphanage Workshops and the Carved Ornaments of the Chinese Pavilion at Laeken Park  William Ma Conclusion  Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Jennifer Milam Abstracts and Keywords Index