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Beijing Sees Fast Increase of Museums

Beijing has registered 140 museums, with approximately every 100,000 residents sharing one, official statistics show. At least 40 museums have opened to public in Beijing over the past decade, a fast growing period compared with the fact that 100 museums were established from 1949, when the People\'s Republic of China was founded, to 1997, according to Shu Xiaofeng, deputy director of Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage. The ratio of the number of museums against population...

Calligrapher to Offer 115 Works to Vietnam

Famous Chinese calligrapher Lu Yuan will on September 1 officially hand over 115 calligraphy pieces in Chinese script based on the Prison Diary of Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) to central Thua Thien Hue province. The provincial People\'s Committee plans to build a house at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in the province to preserve the pieces, which is scheduled to be complete next year, local newspaper New Hanoi reported Friday. The Prison Diary is a collection of poems...

A Trove of Indian Treasure

An exhibition featuring 100 rare and precious items of treasure from ancient India is currently running in this southern city\'s downtown Nanyue King Museum. Entitled Treasures of Ancient India, the exhibition is co-sponsored by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Guangzhou Organizing Committee of Asian Games (GAGOC) and the Indian Bureau of Archaeology. On the current show are unearthed carving works that date back to the 3rd century BC through to the 18th century, according...

Block of Ages

With the light fragrance of the painting ink in the air, the Yang family was busy making 1,000 sets of woodblock-printed New Year paintings for a Hong Kong customer. Five or six of them were printing and binding paintings of figures from the Chinese classic novel A Dream of the Red Chamber. Giving instructions to them was an old man. At 81, Yang Luoshu takes great pride in his work. The farmer from Yangjiabu Village, Weifang City, East China\'s Shandong Province, was named \"Master of Folk...

Ancient Chinese Sex Toys on Show at Exhibition

Three hundred ancient Chinese sex relics will be on show along with sex-related products at Shanghai\'s fourth three-day sex expo this weekend. Visitors can listen to free lectures on sex history and health care, said organizers in a news conference on Tuesday. Liu Dalin, a renowned sex expert and founder of China\'s first sex museum in Tongli, Jiangsu Province, will bring about 300 historic relics and talk about the history of sex and culture. \"Sex is a part of being human and good sex is...

Tibetan Clay Sculptures: Tshatsha

Tshatsha, a literal translation from a Sanskrit word which mean \"copy\" in English, stands for small clay sculptures cut from a mold, including mini-statues of Buddha, stupas or Buddhist scriptures. Usually, they are put inside large stupas or special shrines (tsha-kang). They can also be found on top of Mani stones flanked by prayer flags along tracks, on the revered snow-peaks or in sacred caves. The Tibetans carry them in small amulet boxes to guard against evil. Tshatshas are...

Chinese and French Popular Prints Shining Together

The Exhibition \"Chinese and French Popular Prints,\" organized by the Central Academy of Fine Arts and French Cultural Centre, was opened recently at The Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, displaying collections of print works by Henri George and Wang Shucun. The print works from two printmaking centers, Yangliuqing in China and Epinal in France, document the ordinary lives of people living in two widely different countries in the past century. Originally, Chinese prints were carved...

Masterpieces of Painting, Calligraphy Displayed in HK

Sixteen world-acclaimed masterpieces of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy from the Palace Museum of Beijing are on display in Hong Kong on Monday. The exhibits are displayed in Phase II of the talk-of-the-town exhibition \"The Pride of China: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy of the Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties from the Palace Museum\", which will run until August 11. Star exhibits include Wang Xun\'s \"Letter to Boyuan\" of the Jin dynasty dated some 1,600...

Get It Louder in Shanghai

Inside a shoebox room, supposedly a clothing store, a row of empty clothes hangers are visible. There is a dressing room, but it doesn\'t matter, as there is no one there to try anything on, and this store has nothing on sale. Instead, you can hear recordings of people talking about their clothing. This is CHAN store, an installation art project by Beijing-based CHAN studio, participating in this year\'s Get It Louder exhibition. CHAN is among 130 or so artists from both China and...

SE Asian Art Impresses Shanghai Citizens

Visitors to the Shanghai Natural Wild Insect Kingdom on Tuesday marveled at displays of batik painting, thanks to two Malaysian artists\' vivid demonstrations. The artists painted a colorful world with tropical rain forests and insects on fabric, the local Jiefang Daily reported. They are scheduled to promote the art at the museum for two weeks, and have invited local citizens to try their hand on fabric. Batik is an Indonesian-Malay word and refers to a generic wax-resist dyeing technique...