Degrees of Otherness: The Ottoman Empire and China at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Nations from the Eastern world were represented among the many contributors to the Great Exhibition of 1851. Apart from the displays from India, however, which commanded a very high profile in contemporary commentary, other Oriental countries in evidence at the Exhibition, most notably China and the Ottoman Empire, are less well documented. They were represented by fewer artefacts and attracted comparatively little attention in the catalogues.