The Chinese Convert

The Chinese Convert

"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. [Keevak, p.38 [http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=yJvQ2dxKGOEC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=%22Shen+Fo-tsung%22&source=web&ots=krqbzax5E8&sig=bfJVlboceYvOKyEjbg33rdEb_4k&hl=ja#PPA38,M1] ] [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/chinese_in_britain1.shtml BBC] ] The king was so delighted by this visit that he had his portrait made, and had it hung in his bedroom. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/chinese_in_britain1.shtml BBC] ]

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References

* Keevak, Michael (2004) "The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar's Eighteenth-century Formosan Hoax" Wayne State University Press ISBN 081433198X


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