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MAK Vienna unveils Asian art reinstallation
Feb18

MAK Vienna unveils Asian art reinstallation

The Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna unveiled its permanent collection of Asian art after its reinstallation following a concept and design by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata. The MAK Asia Collection is one of the most comprehensive and important European collections of art and applied arts from the Asiatic region. As of 19 February 2014, it will be presented in an exhibition gallery “conceived in a fundamentally new...

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Qianlong flask set to return home after record sale
Nov07

Qianlong flask set to return home after record sale

A rare Chinese vase is set to return to China after it was sold to a Hong Kong buyer for GBP 1,482,500. The so-called dragon moon flask, said to have been made for the Qianlong emperor and hidden for a century, was sold at Bonhams auction house in London 7 November 2013 for GBP 1,482,500, one of the highest prices achieved for any object in this year’s Asian Art Week auction sales. It was bought by a Hong Kong buyer and so it is...

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BOOK REVIEW: Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture
Nov03

BOOK REVIEW: Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture

YANG CHIA-LING and RODERICK WHITFIELD, eds, Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture. London: Saffron Books, 2012. 312pp.  ISBN 978-1-872843-57-7. Review by TIM BARRETT | You may buy this book here Until less than a generation ago the name of Luo Zhenyu was known to virtually everyone working on pre-modern China – certainly those working on early and medieval China. In some respects his...

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Chinese paintings at the V&A

Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900 at the Victoria and Albert Museum (26 October 2013 – 19 January 2014) is an ambitious survey of a great artistic tradition in the Chinese world. Masterpieces brings together what the museum claims are “the finest examples of Chinese painting created over a 1200 year period” and includes more than 70 works including some of the earliest surviving Chinese paintings as well as other...

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China Institute launched at SOAS

The University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has launched a China Institute, a response to the growing interest in the East Asian country and its numerous facets that offer opportunities for new research. The institute cited more than 40 affiliated academics working across the various SOAS departments who are involved with “interdisciplinary, critically informed research and teaching on China.”...

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The Meaning of the Graph Yi and Its Implications for Shang Belief and Art

This book, an East Asia Journal monograph, uses a combination of written and graphic data to identify the meaning of the so-called taotie mask and the basis of Shang religion. By utilising paleographic and representational evidence, this book puts into perspective that Shang belief was not limited to the worship of royal dead ancestor spirits. Buy this book About The Meaning of the Graph Yi… In a departure from previous...

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