More collaboration.

12Feb09

Chou Kung-shin, the director of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, will be visiting the Palace Museum in Beijing in the hopes of trading art. She is asking to borrow particular Qing dynasty artworks to display in Taiwan for several months.
China’s imperial art collection was divided in 1949:
When the Nationalists boarded ships to Taiwan six [...]

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Up in flames.

09Feb09

On the last day of Lunar New Year festivities in Beijing, a major new building burned from the ground up. Designed by architect Rem Koolhaas, the building housed a hotel, cultural center, and CCTV’s new headquarters. The images of the flames are kind of incredible.

Apparently this was built last year for the Olympics as [...]

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Happy new year/Panda as olive branch.

03Feb09

This is so belated because I was sorta sick last week, and also I was having a dumpling jones that was eclipsing all other urges (i.e. my urge to blog, my desire to complete a task at work before allowing myself to go in search of dumplings). It’s my sister’s year. Oxy.
Now I am craving [...]

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Tags: beijing, china, chinese, diplomacy, food, pandas, taiwan