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A Ming Chinese and Spanish Imperial Collaboration in Southeast Asia: The Boxer Codex.
- Source :
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Art Bulletin . Dec2022, Vol. 104 Issue 4, p20-45. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The Boxer Codex is a ca. 1591 compilation of accounts, written in or translated into Spanish, of the peoples of Southeast Asia alongside illustrations made by a Christian Sangley (Manila Chinese) artist. Scholars should understand this work not as hybrid but as a collaboration between imperial cultures. Evidence of the self-portrait of the artist as a Christianized Sangley and the earliest-known image of a bayoguin, a Tagalog man operating as a female spiritual, medical, and community leader, suggests the rewards of attending to the visual rhetorics of colonization alongside current scholarly emphases on materiality and trade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *IMPERIALISM
*SPANISH language
*SOUTHEAST Asian artists
*SELF-portraits
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00043079
- Volume :
- 104
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Art Bulletin
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160482799
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2022.2070395