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Craig Clunas 柯律格

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Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford. @BritishAcademy_ @TrinityOxford

Oxford, UK

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Craig Clunas 柯律格

2 months

Here's a 40 min online talk I just gave (in English, Chinese subtitles) about the ideas in my new book The Echo Chamber: Transnational Chinese Painting 1897-1935 《回音室：1897—1935年跨国的中国画》(and wherein the significance of those dates is explained)

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4 months

Just in from Beijing, news that my new (bilingual) book on flows of art theory between China and Europe in early 20th c is now published

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2 years

Noooo question

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Would love to see an academic version of this: what pop history book has done the most damage in your particular subfield?

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Italians in the Yuan? More than just just Marco Polo - the 1342 tombstone of Caterina Vilioni, found in Yangzhou, here excellently explicated for @Smarthistory by @krisztina_ilko (photo by @DeborahJHoward )

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Shen Zhou (1427-1509), from the album 'Drawings from Life', dated 1494 #HappyChineseNewYear

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Today is 45 years to the day since I first set foot in China. (Other anniversaries are available: Burning of the Yuanmingyuan, birthdays of Henri Bergson and Canaletto, theft of the Palermo Caravaggio)

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I'll be on @BBCRadio4 tomorrow discussing the fall of the #Ming 明 with @Freedland in "The Long View: Things Fall Apart" Toxic factionalism or environmental collapse or incompetent leadership (or all of the above)?

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The term “magnum opus” can get used quite loosely, but this by Susan Naquin , just out, surely hits the spot ⁦ @Brill_Asian ⁩

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Jonathan Spence 史景迁(1936-2021) RIP

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It's meaning is much debated, but nobody doubts it's #spooky . Li Song 李嵩 (active 13th. c), 'The Skeleton Puppet', 骷髏幻戲圖 Palace Museum, Beijing @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange

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Not everybody knows this, but @bodleianlibs has quite a bit of (often weird and wonderful) Chinese painting in among its gazillion books, and they're hiring somebody to spend a year getting to grips with it. Here's the job advert, closes 15 May 1/2

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'The Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service' (Juanqinzhai 倦勤齋, 1771-6) aka the emperor's private #theatre in the Palace Museum, Beijing. #MuseumsUnlocked Dedicating this to all those exhausted from diligent service.

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In 1485 (or Chenghua 21) the #LanternFestival fell on 31 January, and this unique scroll in National Museum of China shows how Ming emperor Xianzong was suitably amused by fireworks... (1/3) #元宵节

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Muqi 牧谿 (c. 1210 - c. 1269), "Six Persimmons" 六柿圖 Daitoku-ji, Kyoto #OnlineArtExchange #Fruit ("It is seldom displayed to the public." )

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I have just read a review in @GuardianBooks which assures me that "I" is 'a pronoun that is rarely used in Mandarin', and 我 am now going away to lie down.

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Lin Xi 林曦 (b. 1983), 'Hanging a Picture", with inscription from Wen Zhenheng, 'Treatise on Superfluous Things" #womensart

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Honoured to have held this position, one of *the* great art history jobs, for the past 11 years; great colleagues and outstanding students. Your turn now? Professorship of the History of Art at University of Oxford #jobsacuk #outtahere #arthistory

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Today completed a one-chapter-a-day reread, begun in summer, and finding the wintry ending of this masterpiece as moving, if not more moving, than the first time.

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Ann Paludan (1928-2014) was a distinguished scholar of Chinese #architecture and #sculpture ; her archive of 10,000 images (interesting too as 1970s/80s countryside images) is now with @NtlMuseumsScot , and searchable

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In 1485 (or Chenghua 21) the #LanternFestival festivities enjoyed by Ming emperor Xianzong were recorded in a unique scroll now in National Museum of China; in this detail, one of the lantern-hung temporary structures 《宪宗行乐图》1/2

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My online lecture for @ArtHistoryUoM 'Modernity in Chinese Art' is now available to watch here Some of this, a bit of that...

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My once a year tweet of a favourite image. The sculptor Hua Tianyou (1901-1986) works on the May 4th panel of the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square. Where is that model now (she must be approaching 80)? #May4th #五四

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40 years ago to the day I joined the staff @V_and_A as Research Assistant Grade II, Far Eastern Department. Like all civil servants, I signed the Official Secrets Act, so not allowed to say what I did. #otd

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Happy Birthday Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1523), born #otd 553 years ago. His "Living Aloft" of 1543 @met_asianart celebrates an idealised vison of retirement, chilling with one close friend (The whole poem at ) 明文徵明樓居圖軸

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Wu Hung’s Mellon Lectures volume just received. It’s great, and with ⁦ @PrincetonUPress ⁩ splendid production values too

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Huge thanks to @bodleianlibs colleagues for a memorable session with some truly fabulous treasures of the collection, on which a 🧵

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The #OnlineArtExchange theme is "Spring" - so many Chinese artworks have it in their titles. I'm going with this very sweet @AshmoleanMuseum Feng Zikai (1898-1975) of a primary school 'spring outing' 游春 where "the littlest one gets to the top first"

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In celebration of Santiniketan’s addition to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list, here’s Tagore, by Xu Beihong, painted there

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Pleased with this bookfair find - Herbert Giles (1845-1935), as in "Wade-Giles", dedicates a copy of his book to the French scholar Henri Cordier (1849-1925) @CambridgeFames @ChinaCambridge @Inalco

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The first thing I ever wrote on Chinese art was for a school art essay competition (I didn't win). Chose to write (weird kid) on 'Five-coloured parakeet' @mfaboston by Song emperor Huizong (1082-1135); it's his birthday today #宋徽宗 #arthistory

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50% reduction on @PrincetonUPress titles during their May sale

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Annual favourite #OTD : Hua Tianyou 滑田友 (1901-1986) models the 'May 4th' panel for the Monument to the Peoples Heroes, Beijing. If still alive, the unnamed model is now a very old lady; here she looks about the age Hua himself was in 1919 #五四

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‘When a European says with confidence “all the Chinese literati affirm this or that” it is a sign that he understands very few of them, and has read even less of them.’ (de Premare, 1724, via Nicholas Standaert)

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It’s been a wait, but in hand (and in print) at last. Thanks to all who stuck with it.

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Art Historians of Ming, Qing and Republican China all need to know about this fieldwork of Hannibal Taubes recording the temple murals of North China: eye-opening stuff

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Muqi, active 13th c., 'Six persimmons' #OnlineArtExchange (the colour #orange is all in the mind)

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The #Rembrandt show @AshmoleanMuseum really is just as good as you hoped it would be. Do go. If only for the #poodle

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My lockdown binge-watch of the 2019 Epic 'Ming Dynasty' #大明风华 concludes with episode 62, that's over 45 hours of early Ming stabbiness. Melodramatic and implausible, but then so is the Ming shi #明史 . I have loved every minute - costumes, acting, stabbiness, the whole thing

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I'm mentioned, and honoured: 'Chinese Painting and Its Audiences' has been accorded Honorable Mention status by @AASAsianStudies in the 2019 Joseph Levenson Scholarly Book on Pre-1900 #China Book Prize competition. Thank you all @PrincetonUPress @mfkomie @ngadc #arthistory

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Another self-imposed lockdown task comes to an end with the completion of a front-to-back reading of the Dictionary of Ming Biography. Never noticed before it has exactly 1644 pages of text. A few thoughts...1/2

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In the National Palace Museum Taipei restaurant you can order meat that looks like one of their best loved objects; a #Qing dynasty stone carving which looks like a lump of meat #simulacrum

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And, as requested by positively no-one: #Ming history edition, clockwise from lower left: Hongzhi 弘治 , Xuande 宣德, Chongzhen 崇禎, Zhengde 正德

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Huang Yongyu (1924-2023) RIP

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The latest #blueplaque in #Oxford , unveiled today @OxfordTwitPics #sinology

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@incunabula "Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true; Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real" (Hongloumeng), trans David Hawkes #紅學 #紅燒肉學 This tasty if heart-stopping treat from the NPM menu

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Calling it 50 years this week I began @ChinaCambridge @Kings_College This may well be the sole material survivor

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Just digitized, the China diaries of the scientist Dr. Dorothy Needham, detailing her visits in 1944-45, 1964 and 1972 are now on the Cambridge Digital Library @theUL

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The huge and awe-inducing Gundestrup cauldron; for me worth the price of the @britishmuseum #celts show on its own. http://t.co/pSyS2n3gCK

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Just in: this elegant volume lets 48 art historians write about our experience of seeing (sometimes not seeing) just one chosen work. #arthistory

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Today is the 650th anniversary of the founding of the Ming dynasty. Cue celestial celebration.

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3 years

Tomorrow (20/5) @BBCInOurTime I get to discuss "Journey to the West" with Julia Lovell @BirkbeckUoL and Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu 劉瓊云 @ihptaiwan (Remember, "The spirit of Monkey is - irrepressible", don't repress your desire to tune in). #西游记

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Journey to the West

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great novel from the Ming Era, with its heroic Monkey.

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On #WorldCalligraphyDay , what tops the actual hand of the "inventor" of the Chinese script? Here the calligraphy of Cangjie (c. 2667 – 2596 BCE), from 'Antique Model Calligraphy Assembled in the Hall for Treasuring Worthies", 寶賢堂集古法帖, 1489 (*Authenticity not guaranteed*)

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Just arrived-the first complete English translation of Wen Zhenheng, ‘Treatise on Superfluous Things‘ aka ‘Cool Stuff in the Late Ming’ #長物志 Bravo Tony Blishen #namethetranslator

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Please sign & RT this petition protesting the ending of A-level art history #whyarthistorymatters via @38_degrees

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Save Art History being cut from the A Level curriculum

The exam board AQA have decided to discontinue offering Art History as a subject at AS and A Level from 2018. This is detrimental to students, teachers and the cultural future of this country. Art...

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One of the most famous of Chinese artworks centres on fruit, subject of #OnlineArtExchange . "Offering Oranges" by Wang Xizhi (c. 303-361), here mounted with two other letters, is one of *the* canonical pieces of Chinese calligraphy (Palace Museum, Taipei)

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Shen Zhou (1427-1509), 'Album of Sketches from Life', National Palace Museum, Taipei #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg #cats (and you can also buy it on an umbrella )

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Sharp intake of breath at these pictures of the Wudaokou familiar to Beijing Languages Institute students of the 1970s. Bought my padded jacket in that shop.

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Wudaokou 五道口, 40 years ago #Beijing

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Walked on a grey day past the blue plaque on Chiang Yee’s wartime home, thought about the Silent Traveller’s fears, and my own

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Can’t really argue with that. @nationaltrust #SuttonHoo #anglosaxon

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This portrait of Thomas Hyde (1636-1703) in @bodleianlibs shows him clutching a scroll written in Chinese, a language he was one of the first in Britain to study. He was also surely the first (but not the last) member of @Kings_College to give it a go

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Six short films introduce the Chinese collections of @bodleianlibs , which acquired its first book in Chinese in the Ming dynasty (Wanli 32)

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Introducing our Chinese collections

Discover more about one of the most significant Chinese rare book and manuscript collections outside China - held in the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford.

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I really do want to not come across as snarky about this #OTD , but Giorgio Vasari did write almost exclusively about Italian artists. Mind you, Zhang Yanyuan similarly wrote exclusively about Chinese ones, even if he did it 700 years earlier. #張彥遠

Zhang Yanyuan - Wikipedia

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Big day in art today. It's Giorgio Vasari's birthday! He wasn't just the 'first art historian' whose Lives of the Artists started it all in 1550! He also painted scratchy mannerism, and was famous for his speed. When you hired Vasari, you knew the job would be finished. #Vasari

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A @bodleianlibs treasure; the copy of Martini, “Bellum Tartaricum, or the Conquest of China”, owned by antiquarian John Aubrey (1626-1697), also of @TrinityOxford . What a treat and privilege

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Memories of a great art historian, expensive cheese, feline sutra recitation and How I Got My Chinese Name.

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Guest post: Handing over the Ming baton

From Wang Shixiang to Craig Clunas Having featured both Ming Maestros in my tribute to Wang Shixiang’s wife Yuan Quanyou, here’s Craig with a charming reminiscence: Random Gatherings of…

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William Kentridge is going to be Slade Professor at @OxfordArtHist from next January. Come and hear his public lectures, details eagerly awaited.

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The book of the show ⁦ @FreudMusLondon ⁩. Huge thanks to ⁦ @KarolinaHeller ⁩ for brilliant design, and Chen Yi for translation

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For #OnlineArtExchange and a seasonal theme, this Nativity from Giulio Aleni's 1637 Chinese illustrated Life of Christ @artukdotorg 天主降生出像经解, published in Quanzhou. Posting also in solidarity with @BLAsia_Africa colleagues, whose Christmas Tweet this was in 2020

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"For the last hundred years...art history has been the history of that which can be photographed" (Andre Malraux, 1947) #WorldPhotographyDay

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On Sigmund Freud's birthday, here's the 'large Kannon' he bought himself on 1 October 1935, as I imagine the #bodhisattva keeping watch over his collection in a shuttered Freud Museum @FreudMusLondon #Freud #Kannon #Guanyin #觀音

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Li Song (13th c.), 'The Skeleton's Illusory Performance', Palace Musem, Beijing #MuseumsUnlocked : theatre (Jeehee Hong has written on this uncanny work )

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One of the most famous lyrics of Robert Burns, 'O My Love is Like a Red Red Rose', in the classical Chinese rendering by Su Manshu 蘇曼殊 (1884-1918) #RobertBurns #Scots #poetry #古詩

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Today is the birthday of Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664); His 'St Hugo in the Carthusian Refectory' (1630-5) in Seville has a fine bit of Ming #porcelain on the monks' dining table, as their Lent-busting meat turns to ashes

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On #Rubens birthday, his lovely 1617 portrait #drawing of Nicolas Trigault (1577-1628) in Chinese costume #金尼閣 @PP_Rubens @metmuseum

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Delighted to spot this new volume in Oxford City Library, contains my contribution on the Qing Mongolian writer Injannasi, exactly 40 years after my thesis on him (and about 38 since forgetting the language he wrote in, alas)

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Eunuchs accompanying the imperial procession set off fireworks (do not do this on your boat) #MuseumsUnlocked

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It’s 1687, and Shen Fuzong arrives in Oxford, first actual reader, and annotator, of @bodleianlibs Chinese books

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Just out of the box, first preview copy, and late Xmas present. Many debts here. Thank you all. @PrincetonUPress @OxfordArtHist @ngadc

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Plaque, porcelain painted in underglaze blue, Ming China, Zhengde era (1506-1521). Percival David Collection @britishmuseum #InternationalDayofIslamicArt

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Honoured to join the editorial board of "The Court Historian" as an index of the journal's wish to publish more stuff on Asian history, so do think about submitting! @hild_de @daicing @YPLuk @ozu_mu @mpitelka @stephen_whitemn @sfmmccausland

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Of course Chinese #porcelain is common in 17th Dutch art, but can’t recall many broken pots? This detail is from Jan Steen, “Wrath of Asahuerus” 1671/3 ⁦ @BarberInstitute ⁩

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Ming #football , anybody? Pretty fab Chinese 15th c jar showing court ladies playing keepie-up @rijksmuseum

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24 April - anniversary of the death in 1644 of the last #Ming emperor to reign in Beijing #otd #崇禎 #明亡

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Ding Guanpeng 丁觀鵬 (active c. 1708-1771), 'The Qianlong Emperor Bathes an Elephant' (detail) #WorldElephantDay

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Spires in the solstice morning, from the Weston top floor @bodleianlibs

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Matteo Ricci, by YouWenhui 游文輝, alias Manuel Pereira c. 1610, oil on canvas. Society of Jesus, Il Gesù, Rome. #MuseumsUnlocked #hats

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This is an important book (and a cracking good read)

@NewChinaBooks

China Books of The Year 📚

1 year

THE PRICE OF COLLAPSE A new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global climate crisis brought the once-great Ming empire to a tumultuous end. November 2023 @PrincetonUPress

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Here's art historian Ernst #Gombrich 's typewriter, bequeathed along with his books to China Academy of Art, #Hangzhou

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3 years

"Freud and China" opening just two weeks from today, on 12 February 2022. Such a privilage to curate and work with this historic collection @FreudMusLondon

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Freud and China - Freud Museum London

A major new exhibition at the Freud Museum London explores Sigmund Freud's fascination and relationship with China. It showcases new research into Chinese art and objects, the history of psychoanal...

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To Leiden in November to pose the (perhaps rash) question, 'Is "Great Ming" a Dynasty'? In conversation with Jeroen Duindam, and anyone else who'd like to show up. #大明

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2 years

Happy Birthday to Chiang Yee 蔣彞; his 1930s writings on Chinese painting and calligraphy are discussed in my contribution to a rich new collection of essays #書畫 #书画

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Kang Youwei (1858-1927), "On the Excellence of Raphael", 1921 #WorldCalligraphyDay

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2 years

I'm interviewed by Harper's Bazaar Art China about art history in general, and work on the 'Freud in China' exhibition in particular (in Chinese) "谁也不会对所有艺术都感兴趣" Did I really say that? Apparently I did. @FreudMusLondon #arthistory

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6 years

Proud to be a contributor to this great institution, in programmes on voyages of Zheng He, on Shuihu zhuan, on Matteo Ricci

@BBCInOurTime

In Our Time

6 years

Thanks for listening to our programmes this season. We're back on 13th September, a week earlier than usual. Until then, there's always our archive of 800+ podcasts:

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4 years

This self-portait, drunk, is always a winner. Look at the winejar lid skewed left as Chen slumps right. But DYK the Ming Chinese for a #hangover is just 病酒, 'Ill from drink'?

@met_asianart

The Met: Asian Art

4 years

明/清陳洪綬、陳字雜畫冊絹本|Figures, flowers, and landscapes by Chen Hongshou #themet #metmuseum

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May 4th

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Great news just in! The generosity of June and Simon Li makes Chinese art a permanent part of @OxfordArtHist

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“A History of Chinese Painting” and “A Concise History of Modern Painting” Washed in a Washing Machine for Two Minutes: RIP Huang Yongping (1954-2019)

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Letter by me, Graeme Barker in today's Times; the British Academy strongly supports keeping #ALevel in #arthistory , #archaeology

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