| 词条 | The Chinese Convert |
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The Chinese Convert is a famous 1687 painting by Godfrey Kneller depicting the Chinese man Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-Tsung. The painting was ordered by King James II when he met Shen Fu-Tsung during his visit to England in 1685.[1][2] The king was so delighted by this visit that he had his portrait made, and had it hung in his bedroom.[2] That portrait still hangs at Windsor Castle. Shen also visited Oxford, where he helped catalogue the Bodleian Library's collection of Chinese books. Shen left China in 1681 with Philippe Couplet SJ for a tour of Europe, where Couplet planned to promote the Jesuit's China Mission and plead the Jesuit cause before Pope Innocent XI. Couplet was to be accompanied by five Chinese candidates for the priesthood, including Wu Li (Simon de Cunha) and Shen Fuzhong (Michael Shen). In the end only Michael Shen and another young candidate left with Couplet, and after a delay in Batavia, only Michael Shen went with Couplet on that tour of Europe. Being a young Jesuit candidate, Shen's meeting with the English king was only possible during a brief period in post-Reformation English history, when the king was a Roman Catholic and Jesuits were received at court. A year later, in 1688, James II was deposed and replaced by the Protestant William III, and so that encounter between king, Jesuit, and artist — James II, Michael Shen Fuzong, and Sir Godfrey Kneller — could not otherwise have happened. But the result of that encounter was an important Western portrait of a Chinese subject, and hence also its name, "The Chinese Convert".[3] {{Portal|Christianity in China}}References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJvQ2dxKGOEC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=%22Shen+Fo-tsung%22&source=web&ots=krqbzax5E8&sig=bfJVlboceYvOKyEjbg33rdEb_4k&hl=ja#PPA38,M1|title=The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar's Eighteenth-century Formosan Hoax|first=Michael|last=Keevak|date=21 March 2019|publisher=Wayne State University Press|page=38|accessdate=21 March 2019|isbn=0-8143-3198-X}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chinese Convert, The}}2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/chinese_in_britain1.shtml|title=BBC - Radio 4 - Chinese in Britain|website=Bbc.co.uk|accessdate=21 March 2019}} 3. ^ {{dead link|date=March 2019}} 6 : Paintings by Godfrey Kneller|Portraits by British artists|17th-century portraits|1687 works|1680s paintings|Paintings of the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom |
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