Remedial Measurers Painting

China paid a heavy price for having something another wanted really, really badly. An Elizabethan Collar encircles the throat of an Imperial lion from Beijing’s Forbidden City, this strangulation an echo of Britain’s 19th century aggression towards China, in which the Royal Navy killed thousands in order to legitimise the illegal opium for tea trade. In the process millions were blighted to an addiction that at its peak afflicted almost half China’s population and persisted until the 1950’s. Commonly used after an animal is spayed, this collar further references the tumultuous last century in which China’s potential was neutered time and again. Weakened by foreign invasion, opium and a succession of poor rulers, the Forbidden City’s eunuch administration was expelled and the Emperor removed. Then followed the Japanese occupation, a debilitating civil war, mass starvation during Mao’s Great Leap Forward, mass hysteria in the Cultural Revolution and massacre during the Tiananmen Square uprising. Indeed it is only in the past 2 decades China has managed to reverse the 200 years of strangulation begun when Britain decided it really needed a nice cup of tea.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 47.2 H x 1.2 D in

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