A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth

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Mar 18, 88 Documentary

Overview

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven . As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689.

Sound Editor
Susumu Tokunow
Editor
Curtiss Clayton
Director
Philip Haas
Writer
David Hockney
Music
Marc Wilkinson

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