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Boucher was an eminently sociable artist but not a profound one. He could take any theme-classical myth, the fete champetre, or fantasies about the Emperor of China-and, decking it with foamy light and gamboling bodies as firm as little pink quails, create from it a microcosm of civility and pleasure. The Allegory of Music (1764) became for Boucher an occasion to gently eroticize the myth; the nuptial flutters of the muse's doves are clearly of more interest than the musical score behind them...
...Emperor's Nightingale...
...which conditioned their response to certain events in the 1940's and caused them to join the Viet Minh resistance. Her analysis--which drew upon the work of Paul Mus, an eminent French scholar of Vietnam--explained that in traditional Vietnam the peasant believed that his father, ancestors and emperor exercised great mystical powers over events. After the French consolidated their control over the country, they replaced the emperor at Hue as the omnipotent father; this mystical sense of respectful awe enabled the French to transform Vietnamese society without serious opposition. When Ho Chi Minh and a small Viet Minh...
China's trade relationship with England seemed no different. By the emperor's decree, only Canton could be used as a port of call. This allowance was seen as a favor. Chinese believed that they needed nothing the British could offer and, according to one wide misconception, that the English could not live without tea or rhubarb, without which they would surely die of constipation...
...China looked to the West, saw American science and European reforms, and tried to imitate both. Poetry, the medium of the crumbling Confucian society, became both more worldly and more patriotic. This period was known as The Hundred Days of Reform. It ended when the empress dowager imprisoned the emperor in September...