Curator's introduction to China’s hidden century
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Join curators Jessica Harrison-Hall and Julia Lovell as they introduce the context, scope, themes and highlight objects of the extraordinary Citi exhibition, China's hidden century.
Between 1796 and 1912, Qing China endured numerous civil uprisings and foreign wars, with revolution ultimately bringing an end to some 2,000 years of dynastic rule and giving way to a modern Chinese republic. This period was also one of extraordinary creativity, driven by political, cultural and technological change. Amid the devastation, new art forms flourished, as Harrison-Hall and Lovell explain.
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Image credit: Unidentified artist, 'Portrait of Lady Li (Lu Xifu's Wife)'. Ink and colour on paper, China, about 1876. Gift of Mr. Harp Ming Luk. With permission of ROM (Royal Ontario Museum), Toronto, Canada. © ROM.
I thoroughly enjoyed the live broadcast of this Curator's Introduction to China's Hidden Century and learned so much more about this period of history - much to my embarrassment! I've been to the exhibition three times already and am working my way through the accompanying exhibition catalogue. I thoroughly recommend a visit (at least one) to this stunning show. Thank you to the British Museum for a stunning piece of work!
I visited the exhibition earlier today and found it fascinating. Seeing the imperial robes and costume up close in detail was amazing. Exhibition also had the actual signed document from The Treaty of Nanjing. A must visit for anyone interested in Chinese history.
I went to visit today but so many Communist spies accosting me. I told the security guards but they did nothing
Very good curator ,informative 🎉
Looking forward to my visit tomorrow
Is it possible for the BL to produce an edited version of this? Without the continuous talking head and captions? Thanks
Went today and loved it
did the 1st Opium War actually favor all western nations or is this the common way of taking the big imperial powers of britain and france and take them to represent all over western european countries/empires/kingdoms?
Trickle down colonialism.
It is mostly the british who did the plundering, looting, and massacring
I wouldn;'t call China a "modern republic"!
why did these women steal Yilin Wang’s work without permission?
four years of research by over 100 scholars from 14 countries and not a single one knows how to properly cite their sources.
everyone steals thats life like china stealing western science and culture now