Maritime museum offers glimpse of China's ancient trade routes
Established in 1959 and then relocated some 30 years later, the Quanzhou Maritime Museum is the only museum of its kind in China showcasing the history of ancient overseas communication. Located in Fujian Province, the museum's collections explore how Quanzhou played a vital role as a trading hub and a diverse cultural center with a multitude of religions.
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Palace Museum treasures to make Canada debut
And speaking of cultural heritage, a large number of treasures from Beijing's Forbidden City are set to be displayed in Canada for the very first time. The Royal Ontario Museum will soon unveil an exhibition titled The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China's Emperors. Presented in collaboration with Beijing's Palace Museum, the show brings approximately 250 treasures that were part of Chinese imperial life for five centuries. Long kept in a city strictly off-limits to all but the emperor, his family and his personal servants, these objects are the relics of a momentous chapter in China's fascinating history. More than 80 of the exhibition's objects, including textiles, calligraphy, paintings and armor, have never before travelled outside the Forbidden City. The exhibition is part of the Royal Ontario Museum's year-long Centennial celebrations, and runs from March 8th until September 1st.
Museum representatives promote communication and cooperation in Xi’an
Representatives from some 50 museums along the ancient Silk Road are meeting in Xi’an City in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. The meeting is part of a cultural initiative to promote communication and cooperation between museums and art groups. Xi'an's Tang West Market museum is hosting the event.
When you go into the museum, you can have a glimpse into the ancient Silk Road. The Tang West market museum takes people back to the start of China’s glorious Tang Dynasty some 1,400 years ago.
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New Media in Old Beijing: Cultural Heritage & Digital Innovation
Since its reform and opening-up, China has undergone enormous political, social, and economic transformation. Cultural heritage institutions have similarly modernized under the influence of digital innovation. Museums provide not only a framework for the appreciation and interpretation of cultural heritage, but also a setting for the representation of innovative storytelling using new media.
This assignment examines how two such institutions -- the Shijia Hutong Museum and Beijing Capital Museum -- have experimented with digital innovation to appeal to diverse audiences and remain culturally relevant.
Drawing on scholarly resources and experiential learning, this video explores the 'anxiety to be modern' among Chinese museums (Varutti 2014, p. 161) and aims to identify examples of success and areas for improvement.
This video was produced by Tom Fearon, a Master of Communication candidate at Deakin University, in fulfillment of Portfolio Part 2 for ALC708 (Blogging and Online Communication Techniques).
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CHINA 中国 BEST SHOPPING IN BEIJING // VLOG#91
We're still loving Beijing and this week we even get to see some beautiful blue skies! This week we try to find the best shopping Beijing has to offer..keeping in mind we don't have much space in our 40L backpacks...which also helps to keep us on budget. Our first stop is the famous Silk Road where you can get a copy/knick-off of just about any clothing or fashion related item your heart desires. Kate is not a big shopper but even she had fun here. Bring your haggling skills and some money for coffee. Next on our agenda is to add some more culture to our lives so we make our way to the Capital Museum of China. Admission is free but you have to register in advance (in Mandarin) so we just asked the nice folks at our hotel to call for us and all was smooth as silk. Make sure to put this Museum on your itinerary when visiting Beijing, it's definitely worth investing an afternoon to check out the exhibits. This place is truly a treasure trove of history. For some more shopping we roll on over to another famous Beijing copy mall, the Pearl Market which we didn't like nearly as much as silk road. To close out, we link up with some expat friends who take us out for a truly local dining experience that was just amazing! While taking our after-meal stroll we happen across some Duck fans who see my shirt and get really..REALLY...excited..perhaps having a blood alcohol content higher than their age had something to do with the excitement. All too soon its time to leave Beijing and the friends we've made here. We can't wait to come back and explore even more of this amazing city and country!
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New Face of China: 798 Art Zone 中国之新：798艺术区
In China, 798 does not simply represent the figure, it is also the cultural symbol organically integrating the modern arts, architectural space, cultural industry, historical context and the city living environment. The video takes the past, present and future of 798 Art Zone as the main clue, relates the stories of the figures living and working or having lived and worked here and exhibits the cultural phenomena featuring co-existence of the vanguard consciousness and traditional sentiment, equal stress on the experimental touches and social responsibilities and all-win of spiritual pursuit and economic planning as well as the social influence upon urban development, production and consumption patterns etc.
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CHINATRIP「September 18th History Museum」Shenyang,Liaoning Province【中国 九・一八歴史博物館】
September 18th 1931 is a day that will never be forgotten by the Chinese people, as it was the beginning of the darkest period in China's modern history. On this day the Japanese army, which had been occupying part of Manchuria (northeastern China) since the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), allegedly bombed a bridge at a Japanese owned and operated railroad crossing. The Japanese then blamed the attack on Chinese rebels. This action, which is now referred to as the September 18th Incident (九一八事变) or the Manchurian Incident or the Mukden Incident (Mukden is the Manchu name for Shenyang), was used as a pretext for the Japanese army to begin its invasion of China.
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CHINA: BEIJING: MICROSOFT LAUNCHES CHINESE WINDOWS 95'
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China's Forbidden City played host to the U-S computer giant Microsoft for the launch of the Chinese version of the Windows '95 system.
Now the company is hoping for a big push into the lucrative Chinese market.
Microsoft, one of the world's biggest software production companies came to China's ancient Forbidden City to launch the Chinese version of the Windows '95 package.
The company was keen to highlight the extensive research and development carried out by its Chinese partners and the country's government to prepare the software.
And, to mark the launch, Microsoft has donated the system to the Forbidden City museum.
The company wanted to get into the Chinese software market in 1993.
But back then Beijing threatened to keep it out following plans to use a Chinese- language version of Windows developed in Taiwan.
For its part, the company complained about rampant software piracy.
A year later Microsoft agreed to work with China in developing
a new Chinese version of Windows, with Beijing pledging to crack down on pirates.
After selling more than 20 (m) million units of Windows 95 worldwide in 26 different languages Microsoft now has a keen eye on the fast-growing Chinese market.
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It's been interesting in our brief history of Microsoft in China since 1992, I don't think there is ever been a day where as a company we have been more excited...
SUPER CAPTION: BRYAN W. NELSON, Corporate director, Greater China region, Microsoft
Microsoft is co-operating with the local computer industry, with the aim of beefing up Chinese software production.
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With the development of Chinese software, it's the foundation of the growth of Chinese computing, so we look forward to have Windows 1995 being able to become the basis here for that platform of the softwares developments.
SUPER CAPTION: BRYAN W. NELSON, Corporate director, Greater China region, Microsoft
Microsoft says it will sell 100-thousand Windows 95 packages in China this year.
And despite the piracy threat there, local managers say they aren't taking any steps to prevent it.
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If we would to make the product very difficult to copy, it would harm very much legitimate users, there aren't many technical ways we can make it very difficult to copy. Mostly we focused on the packaging, the various seals, the holograms we put on the packaging so people know when they buy the real product and when they buy an illegal copy.
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This Windows 95 version features simplified Chinese characters, standard on the mainland.
Microsoft previously sold software with traditional Chinese characters used in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Illegal copies of these ones are on sales on Beijing streets for 20 to 50 yuan, that's up to six U-S dollars.
But Microsoft keeps a low profile about possible U-S sanctions on China over copyright violations.
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Well the issue of sanctions is a very tough one, we hope it doesn't come to that, that's really a US government decision, and between the governments, we hope to work constructively with the Chinese government and the US government to encourage more enforcement of the Chinese laws, to encourage education, and wide availability of the software on a legal basis. We think that the communication between corporations is the best way forward. We have seen big steps of improvements in the last year and we hope it'll keep on going that direction.
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Exclusive interview with Director of China’s Palace Museum
With over 5,000 years of history, China has its fair share of experience when it comes to protecting its own cultural heritage. But short of collecting and cataloging cultural relics and artifacts, what else should the country do to ensure that its people understand its history? We speak to the Director of China's Palace Museum in Beijing, Shan Jixiang, who says that his biggest challenge is how to make sure the museum's collections adequately educate the public about its past, present and future. He also says that modern society and civilization still have much to learn from the ones that preceded us thousands of years ago.
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Went to business trip and had a street food at the traditional market in Beijing, China.
Used for 4 years, 13341 photos, 57 video shots of Beijing characteristics
Beijing, referred to as Beijing, is the capital, municipality directly under the central government, national central city, megacity, international metropolis, national political center, cultural center, international communication center, scientific and technological innovation center of the People's Republic of China.
Beijing is one of the first batch of national famous historical and cultural cities and the city with the largest number of world cultural heritage in the world. With a history of more than 3,000 years, Beijing is home to the Palace Museum, the temple of heaven, the badaling Great Wall, the Summer Palace and many other places of interest.
【ActionMedia】 Exhibition : Unlived by What is Seen | Pace Gallery Beijing,Beijing,China
'Unlived by What is Seen' Opening Scene
Unlived by What is Seen is an exhibition curated by the artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu and independent curator Cui Cancan. Preparation of the project began in 2013, and after a year of in-depth communication and exploration, twenty-nine artists were selected, along with two art organizations and three artist groups.
Unlived by What is Seen traces a new direction in Chinese contemporary art emerging since 2008. This new current is characterized by the infiltration of art practices into various social sectors and aspects of life. The goal of these practices is no longer geared toward the production of images or visual objects, but rather developing modes of existence that interrogate life itself. Arising from specific needs of the individual, it transgresses and transcends both the anxiety to enter history and the ennui of daily encounters. These unnameable needs cut into the social fiber without mediation and manifest attitudes of disengagement from which a poetics of life shines forth. In other words, the present exhibition is not interested in dealing with ossified modes of making art, but a multitude of actions taken by individuals.
Curators：Sun Yuan & Peng Yu Cui Cancan
Duration: 13th December 2014 – 15th March 2015
Venue: Pace Gallery Beijing 、Tang Contemporary Art Center、Galleria Continua
World’s major museums agree on closer cooperation during Forbidden City Forum
The first Forbidden City Forum, an initiative for the international museum community, was held at the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, in Beijing on Thursday. During the forum, major museums around the world agreed to work closer together to improve urban cultural development and face the challenges posed by new technology.
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Paul & Xu - Encounters in China | A China Icons Video
Professor Xu Xing of Beijing and Professor Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum in London are two of the world’s most highly respected palaeontologists. They’re also close friends who have worked together for more than 20 years.
Their collaboration echoes the increasing cooperation and communication between palaeontologists worldwide, which is ushering in what some are calling a golden age of dinosaur studies.
They met in China in the 1990s when Paul was a PhD student. And Xu Xing was studying for his Masters, and still not sure what to focus on for his future.
Their friendship was forged during a long trip to visit a dinosaur museum and research site in Sichuan province, at that time a place that seemed to Paul very remote. Seeing a committed dinosaur scholar at work at close quarters convinced Xu Xing this was something he wanted to do, too; and for Paul this was the beginning of a decades-long involvement with Chinese scholars and Chinese dinosaurs.
Xu Xing started translating into English all kinds of important scientific papers about Chinese dinosaurs, written in Chinese for Paul which so improved his English that ever since the majority of his own papers have been written in English, which has since become the accepted international scientific language.
In 2005 Xu Xing was involved in the analysis of the bones of eight to ten dinosaurs found in a pit in China. He was very excited as they appeared to be a kind of sauropod – a huge, long-necked plant eating dinosaur that had never previously been found in the northern hemisphere. But he wanted to be completely sure of his identification. So he turned to Paul who is an expert on plant-eating dinosaurs and has the kind of extensive data base necessary to make a sure identification.
In 2018 Xu Xing, Paul and a group of other international palaeontologists announced the discovery of Lingwu long – the so-called “amazing dragon from Lingwu.” It’s important in understanding the evolution of not just dinosaurs but also life on Earth.
In the year in which China is looking back on 70 years since the creation of the People’s Republic of China, Xu Xing and Paul are reflecting on how international cooperation in palaeontology, together with the advent of new technology, has brought about a transformation in their subject in the nearly quarter of century they have been friends and colleagues.
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