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

• Movies
• 1988-03-18
• EN
• Released
• 0h 46m
• Documentary

• 8.0
• 2

Storyline

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.