Pursuing a Career in Chinese Art in the UK

‘Pursuing a career in Chinese art in the UK’ is an event aimed at postgraduate students and early career academics interested in Chinese art, whether as a career or as a source for their research: October 3rd 2017, 12.30-1700 at the Museum of East Asian Art (MEAA) in Bath. As the sectors of Chinese art…

Objects of Contention

Spoils from the Yuanmingyuan in British Museums Part I: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Part II: Monday, September 25, 2017 The two-day forum is organised by Kate Hill (PhD candidate, University of Glasgow). In the autumn of 1860 British and French troops looted the Yuanmingyuan, the lavish garden estate of the Qing emperors. Campaign members then…

SDCF: Greater China Summer Workshop

Sinological Development Charitable Foundation (SDCF) was founded by Dr. Elizabeth Woo Li, currently a Senior Adviser to and a Research Associate in China Institute in SOAS, University of London. SDCF was founded to widen aspects of Chinese studies not only within the traditional philosophical literature but beyond. The Workshop Programme covers school of Chinese philosophy and how…

Dying Matters Exhibition

17 Dec 2016 – 30 July 2017: Leeds City Museum, Leeds Story Gallery http://www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/Pages/leedscitymuseum/Dying-Matters.aspx  and please do have a look at their blog as well at https://secretlivesofobjects.blog/2016/12/08/dying-matters/ Forthcoming events Wed 26 April 12 -1pm: Advanced Decisions, talk by Prof. Celia Kitzinger*. Wed 24 May 12 -1pm: Grief Demystified, talk by Caroline Lloyd*. Wed 2 June 10.30am -12 noon:…

Two postdoc research assistant positions

The research cluster “Translocations” at the Institute for Art History and Historical Urban Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin is seeking to hire two postdoctoral researchers for its team. The research cluster will study large-scale displacements of cultural assets from antiquity to the 20th century such as: art theft and spoliation organized by the state in…

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British Association of Chinese Studies (BACS) 2017 conference

Let’s meet in the Cloisters in September: BACS 2017 conference

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Happy Year of the Rooster!

Welcome to the China Art Research Network website. As the New Year starts we are pleased to present our newly created website – may the Year of the Rooster be a prosperous one!