{"product_id":"berliner-schlachtenkupfer-berlin-battle-engravings-9783422987685","title":"Berliner Schlachtenkupfer \/ Berlin Battle Engravings","description":"\u003cp\u003e(Bilingual Edition: English \/ German)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication presents the entire collection of printing plates \ndepicting battles of the Chinese emperor that are still in existence. \nThey show scenes of Chinese military campaigns between 1755 and 1828. Of\n the originally eighty-eight printing plates, only thirty-seven are \nstill known today, thirty-four of them in the Ethnological Museum in \nBerlin. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book tells the history of the plates’provenance and \ndescribes the history of copperplate engraving in China. The process in \nwhich the printing plates were created and the motifs found in the \npictures of battles are also explained. The magnificent copper plates, \nwhich are part of the exhibition in the Wang Shu Room of the Humboldt \nForum, bear witness to the history of missionaries in China, the \nmilitary campaigns and politics of the Chinese emperor, the \ntransnational interrelation of culture and craft, and ultimately the \ncraft of copperplate engraving itself. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henriette Lavaulx-Vrécourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48279235657979,"sku":"9783422987685","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9783422987685_dca2408f-6648-45ca-ab2c-5a8b3b727c64.jpg?v=1772489789","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/berliner-schlachtenkupfer-berlin-battle-engravings-9783422987685","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}