There’s an ick about chinoiserie. A palpable unease gurgles beneath the veneer of politesse and delicate refinement on ...

“Chinoiserie flattened and serialized fixed ... The imagined narrative of what they think China is became a structure that doesn’t necessarily go away; it comes back when it’s needed.

are not genuine Chinese patterns but a recreated design based on Rococo and Chinoiserie styles, forming a symbolic“Orient” vastly different from the real China. Chinoiserie as Cultural ...