Carved red lacquer on wood core, Yongle mark and period 1403-24, South China. Diameter 34.8 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum Ming: 50 years that changed China 18 September 2014 – 5 January 2015 at the Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery • Extraordinarily beautiful and rare loans tell the story of a critical period in […]
Category: Chinese History
The Ten Thousand Things – 14th century China
Set in the final years of the Yuan Dynasty, THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS revolves around Wang Meng—a low-level government worker and gifted Chinese painter. Too astute to believe in an artist’s autonomy from society, and yet too devoted to his art to treat his job with requisite seriousness, Wang is always between two lives—never fully […]
Liverpool: Europe’s oldest Chinese community
Ebb and Flow is an audio, visual survey of the history and changes that have taken place within the oldest Chinese community in Europe, curated by Jill Carruthers. Drawing from the rich selection of photographic prints preserved in the Open Eye Gallery Archive, the show looks at the physical and architectural transformations of Liverpool’s Chinatown, […]
Birmingham’s British Chinese Heritage Project
• Chinese Community Centre Birmingham has produced a ‘British Chinese Heritage Project – Chinese Lives in Birmingham’ over the last 15 months. • Pillars of Birmingham Chinese Community including; Mr Woon Wing Yip OBE and Professor Rayson Huang CBE, the project will be exhibited at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts and archived in the […]
Ming Dynasty ‘Chicken Cup’ sells for world record
A porcelain cup known as the ‘Chicken Cup’ from the Ming Dynasty has today been sold for a world record of over £20 million at an auction in Hong Kong, conducted by Sotheby’s. It was sold to Liu Yiqian, reportedly the 200th richest person in China, with an estimated fortune of over £500 million. Nicholas Chow, […]
Chinese Jews: Aspects of their history and music lecture at SOAS
The Jewish Music Institute at SOAS, are holding a lecture with one of our most esteemed lectures and academics; Dr Alexander Knapp. This lecture brings to the public ground breaking research in the field of ethnomusicology and is one of the few events that connects tri-laterally between Chinese, British and Jewish cultures. The social, cultural, […]
Through the lens of John Thomson: Hong Kong & China, 1868-1872
手執折扇並站在屏風前的貴婦 廣東廣州 1869-1871年 Through the Lens of John Thomson: Hong Kong and Coastal China, 1868-1872 – photography exhibition will be held from 23 November 2013 to 16 February 2014 at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum (“HKMM”), Central Ferry Pier No.8. The images in this exhibition were taken by Scottish photographer John Thomson, who opened a […]
Liverpool – A plaque to honour Chinese seamen
A plaque to honour the Chinese seamen who played an important part in Liverpool’s history has been unveiled on Nelson Street. The blue plaque will play tribute to the 15-20,000 Chinese seafarers who made Liverpool their home, around the time of the First World War, after working with The Blue Funnel Shipping Line, a British […]
Heritage Project: Chinese Lives in Birmingham
Chinese Lives in Birmingham is a community heritage project that aims to chart the development of the Chinese community in Birmingham from the 1950s to the present day. Currently there are around 20,000 Chinese people living in Birmingham; and the project hopes to provide a snapshot of their lives through individual stories and memories. The […]
Why China will relocate its capital within 20 years by George Vong
George Vong is a British Chinese author and entrepreneur. He grew up working at his parents’ take away in Hull from a very young age. He later dropped out of university to play poker full time, and went to live in Macau. After 3 years of player poker Vong returned to the UK to attend his […]