Lecture Preview | Wang Zhiwei: The Qianlong Emperor - an extraordinary life that wanders between legend and reality

| Event Information |

The Qianlong Emperor in history was an emperor who left the most information and was interpreted by posterity. To this day, in the vast area from Jilin to Zhejiang, we can still see various relics about the emperor, in addition to more than one million square meters of palace architecture and magnificent royal garden palace, as well as calligraphy inscriptions, classics, etc.; he alone left more than 40,000 imperial poems, which are enough for posterity to read and evaluate. So, what kind of emperor was the Qianlong Emperor? How to deeply understand his multiple identities and construction performance? Was he the most internationally minded man in China in the 18th century? Are legends such as her birth, the fragrant concubine, and the queen with broken hair hollow or are there other hidden feelings? These issues will be discussed one by one in this lecture.

Speech Title: The Qianlong Emperor - An Extraordinary Life Between Legend and Reality

Speakers

Wang Zhiwei

Director of the Imperial Court History Editorial Office of the Palace Publishing House

Academic Host

Wu Xiaomin

Professor, Executive Director of the Yuanmingyuan Research Center of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Director of the Research Center of History theory of the School of Architecture

Panelists

Wu Xiangyan

Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Central Academy of Fine Arts

Wang Tiehua

Zhu Ningning

Lecture time

November 15, 2021, 18:00-21:00

Lecture format

Offline public lectures for school personnel: Lecture venue: Room 813, Building 7

| Speaker Profile |

Graduated from the School of History of Capital Normal University, he is engaged in the collation, research, editing and publishing of the history of the Qing Dynasty court. In recent years, he has mainly focused on the history of the Qing Palace in the 18th century and the comparative study of modern Chinese and Japanese navies. Many of his edited works have been selected as "National Top Ten Literature and Literature Books". He is the author of the "Hidden Shadow of the Forbidden City" series, the "Mystery Palace" series, and the "Qianlong Proverbs" and so on. "Hidden Shadow of the Forbidden City" won the "Best Photographic History Award" in 2019, and "The Mystery Palace" won the 2019 National Cultural IP "Golden Bamboo Award". In 2020, he was selected as the "Gold Medal Reading Promoter" of the 10th Book Fragrance China Beijing Reading Season.

Host

School of Architecture, Central Academy of Fine Arts

undertaker

Center for The Study of History, School of Architecture, Central Academy of Fine Arts

Academic Department, School of Architecture, Central Academy of Fine Arts

Central Academy of Fine Arts Yuanmingyuan Research Center