第十三章 绘画的力量
书名:谁在收藏中国:美国猎获亚洲艺术珍宝百年记 作者:谢林·布里萨克/卡尔·梅耶
第十三章 绘画的力量
让我向美国商人们大喊:参见美国国会记录,引自《阴影下的竞赛》。Congressional Record,June 14,1898,quoted in Meyer and Brysac,Tournament of Shadows,398.
荷马《伊利亚特》的英雄们所取得的成就,真是小巫见大巫:参见《1904年世界博览会:在展望中回首》。“1904 World’s Fair:Looking Back at Looking Forward,”Missouri Historical Society,http://mohistory.org/exhibits/Fair/WF/HTML/Overview/.
中国人曾低调参加了1893年芝加哥博览会、1900年巴黎博览会:参见《1904年世界博览会的中国艺术》。information from Kristina Kleutghen,“Chinese Art at the 1904 World Expo,”quoting Theodore Hardee,“China’s Remarkable Exhibit at the World’s Fair”,NYT,August28,1904,http://kristinakleutghen.com/2010/06/30/chinese-art-at-the-1904-world-expo/.
穿着中国本土服装的男女假模特:参见《世界博览会上的中国名优展品》。Hardee,“China’s Remarkable Exhibit at the World’s Fair”.
明显地拥挤:参见《圣路易斯博览会》等。The Louisiana Purchase Exposition(St.Louis,MO:Universal Exposition Publishing Company,1905),287;and Carol Ann Christ,“‘The Sole Guardians of the Art Inheritance of Asia’:Japan and China at the 1904 St.Louis World’s Fair,”Positions,Vol.8 L 3(Winter 2000),701.Information from The Louisiana Purchase Exposition,291.
他做出的贡献比任何人都多:参见《与龙共舞》。W.A.P.Martin,A Cycle of Cathay,411,quoted in Julia Boyd,A Dance with the Dragon:The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony(New York:I.B.Tauris,2012),52.
赫德是一位了不起的人物:参见《与龙共舞》等。Charles Stewart Addis,memoir(n.d.,but post-1885),HSBC archives,S 016/002 c,quoted in Boyd,A Dance with Dragon,36.
关于慈禧太后与赫德的关系,参见《龙夫人》。Seagrave,Dragon Lady,452.
她更像一阵旋风:引自赫德写给詹姆斯的信。Robert Hart to James Duncan Campbell,Letter 1320,March 6,1904,John King Fairbank,Katherine Frost Bruner,Elizabeth MacLeod Matheson,eds.,The I.G.in Peking:Letters of Robert Hart(Cambridge:Harvard University Press,1975),Vol.II,1401.
很快从欧洲快递订购了7米多的画布和一些油画颜料:参见赫德写给詹姆斯的信。Robert Hart to James Duncan Campbell,Letter 1292,September 6,1903,and Letter 1301,November 8,1903,Fairbank et al.,The I.G.in Peking,Vol.II,1370~1371,1379.
有关路易莎·裕庚的家族:参见《清宫假冒者:德龄公主》。212 OnLouisa Yu Keng’s family,see Grant Hayter-Menzies,Imperial Masquerade:The Princess Der Ling(Hong Kong:Hong Kong University Press,2008),197.
太后陛下身着一套正式冬季官服:参见《与慈禧太后为伴》。Katherine A.Carl,With the Empress Dowager(New York:Century Company,1905),216.
我自己使用铁钳子拉拽画布:同上,217~218页。
我不想让人们在那里想象”:参见《清宫两年记》。Princess Der Ling,Two Years in the Forbidden City(New York:Dodd,Mead,1931),211.
我曾经梦想:参见《与慈禧太后为伴》。Carl,With the Empress Dowager,55.
被认为不适合运送太后陛下的肖像:参见《与慈禧太后为伴》。Carl,With the Empress Dowager,294 et seq.Transport for the“Sacred Picture,”The Louisiana Purchase Exposition,292.
罗伯特·赫德:参见赫德通信等。Information from Robert Hart,Letter 1329,May 27,1904,Fairbank et at.,The I.G in Peking,1414,and Carl,With the Empress Dowager,55.
我和康格相互欣赏,一见如故:参见《柔克义:西藏高原的学者、外交家》。Kenneth Wimmel,William Woodville Rockhill:Scholar-Diplomat of the Tibetan Highlands(Bangkok:Orchid Press,2003),109.
从大沽到北京:引自柔克义写给洛奇的信。William Rockhill to Nannie Lodge,December 3,1900,quoted in Howard K.Beale,Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power,187.
两千名官员、亲王、总督、道台:参见《朝廷回到北京》,1902年1月8日《纽约时报》。no byline,“The Court Back in Peking,”NYT,January 8,1902.
太后被自己的感情所征服:参见《来自中国的通信》。Sarah PikeConger,Letters from China:With Particular Reference to the Empress Dowager and the Women of China(Chicago:A.C.McClurg&Co.,1909),219~220.
称康格夫人是“一根筋”:参见《慈禧太后统治下的中国》。in J.O.P.Bland and E.Backhouse,China Under the Empress Dowager(London:William Heinemann,1911),290 fn.
康格夫人念的稿子前言不搭后语:引自布兰德写给莫里森的信。Bland to Morrison,February 12,1902,in Lo Hui-Min ed.,Correspondence of G.E.Morrison,Vol.1(Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,1976-78),178~179.
是清廷返回紫禁城后发生的最具革命性的事件:参见1902年2月3日伦敦《泰晤士报》。The Times(London),February 3,1902,quoted in Lo HuiMin,Correspondence of G.E.Morrison,178.
与那位狠毒凶悍的老妇人慈禧太后相当亲密:引自莫里森写给瓦伦丁的信。George Morrison to Valentine Chirol,September 7,1903,in Lo Hui-Min,Correspondence of G.E.Morrison,230.
几个月以来:参见《来自中国的通信》。Sarah Pike Conger to Laura Conger,in Conger,Letters from China,247.
在中国,我是一名探索者:参见《清宫假冒者》。Hayter-Menzies,Imperial Masquerade,193.
外国公使要求,不允许再向清宫女士送礼:参见《来自中国的通信》。Conger,Letters from China,224.
那里的漂亮花卉:参见《皇帝万寿无疆的中国》。Eliza Scidmore,China:The Long-Lived Empire(New York:Century,1900),146.
正式欧洲居民所住的区域:同上,144页。
驻外任满一届后肯定会获得升职和嘉奖:同上,145页。
很可能需要自己支付装修费用:参见《康格公使的有趣生活》,1900年7月17日《旧金山号召报》。“Interesting Life History of Minister Conger,”San Francisco Call,July 17,1900,quoted in Hayter-Menzies,Imperial Masquerade,283.
我追求的不是数量:参见《来自中国的通信》。Conger,Letters fromChina,260.
最近,我得到了一些顶级藏品:引自康格夫人写给女儿的信。Sarah Conger to her daughter Laura,July 20,1903,ibid.,258.
从一块精致地毯中赚了大钱:参见1908年2月22日《纽约时报》。NYT,February 22,1908.
由美国驻华公使携带入境、属于八国联军从北京盗窃、印有美国烙印的“赃物买卖”获准进行:见1908年2月25日《晚间世界报》,引自《清宫假冒者》。Evening World,February 25,1908,quoted in Hayter-Menzies,Imperial Masquerade,267.
我们允许美国外交公使或外国公使、大使免税带入任何货物:同上。
你们美国人会做何感想:美国国会记录,引自《清宫假冒者》。Congressional Record,April 18,1908,60th Congress/First Session,4930~4931,quoted in Hayter-Menzies,Imperial Masquerade,268.
我有许多中国刺绣,都是老货:见康格夫人写给弗利尔的信,引自《清宫假冒者》。Sarah Conger to Charles L.Freer,July 28,1919,Freer/Sackler Archives,transcribed by Hayter-Menzies,Imperial Masquerade.
我们对柔克义真是怕得要命:参见哥伦比亚大学口述历史,引自《阴影下的竞赛》。Nelson Johnson,Oral History,Columbia University,quoted in Meyer and Brysac,Tournament of Shadows,400.
一些人从纽约到布鲁克林,也能经历探险过程:见1900年1月27日《星期六晚邮报》,引自《柔克义》。Saturday Evening Post,January 27,1900,quoted in Wimmel,William Woodville Rockhill,xv.
我的行头很简单:参见柔克义《喇嘛之境》。William Rockhill,Land of Lamas:Notes of a Journey through China,Mongolia and Tibet(New York:Century,1891),288,quoted in Meyer and Brysac,Tournament of Shadows,406.
身穿羊皮大衣:参见《喇嘛之境》。Rockhill,Land of the Lamas,56.
溜溜达达穿过那里的街道:参见《阴影下的竞赛》。Meyer and Brysac,Tournament of Shadows,408.
如何钱包空空(就我而言,还是饥肠辘辘)在陌生国度上路旅行:参见柔克义《蒙古和西藏的考察》,史密森尼学会1892年年度报告。William Rockhill,“Explorations in Mongolia and Tibet,”Annual Report,Board of Regents,Smithsonian Institution(1892),659.
我咽下的食物中有尘土:参见《阴影下的竞赛》。Meyer and Brysac,Tournament of Shadows,410.
我离日喀则有10天路程:同上,410~411页。
我被你的奇闻异事深深吸引:同上,398页。
我感觉心里的石头落了地:引自罗斯福写给柔克义的信。Theodore Roosevelt to William Rockhill,July 21,1900,Rockhill Papers,MS Division,LOC.
他虽然很高:参见《柔克义》。Wimmel,William Woodville Rockhill,152.
我曾想象:参见柔克义写给罗斯福的信。Rockhill to Roosevelt,June 30,1908,Theodore Roosevelt Papers,MS Division,LOC.
十三世达赖是个急性子:参见柔克义《拉萨的达赖喇嘛》,引自《阴影下的竞赛》。William Rockhill,The Dalai Lamas of Lhasa,90~92,quoted in Meyer and Brysac,Tournament of Shadows,418.
是我们这一代所有人中最有意思、最特别的经历”:引自罗斯福写给柔克义的信。Roosevelt to Rockhill,August1,1908,Rockhill Papers,LOC,quoted in Meyer and Brysac,Tournament of Shadows.
养养鸡,种种花:引自柔克义写给布兰德的信。Rockhill to J.O.Bland,March 29,1913,quoted in Wimmel,William Woodville Rockhill,xv.
柔克义先生为人极其低调:参见1915年5月《通报》。Berthold Laufer,T’oungPao,Second Series 16,No.2(May 1915),290.
罗伯特·赫德爵士最后一次离别:参见《与龙共舞》。Boyd,A Dance with the Dragon,52.
慈禧太后去世:关于老佛爷的后事,参见《龙夫人》。Seagrave,Dragon Lady,462.