Jottings from the Granite Studio

One of China’s most famous and priceless paintings, “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” (qingming shanghe tu 清明上河图) is now on display at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. The painting is on loan from the Beijing government as part of the celebration for the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong’s return.
The NYT has a [...]

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Reuters reports today that a 30-meter building is buried inside of the vast mausoleum of Qin Shihuangdi.

Duan Qingbo, a researcher with Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology, said the building might have been constructed for the soul of the emperor to depart.
Archaeologists have been using remote sensing technology since 2002 to study the internal structure of the [...]

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Li Datong, the former editor of Freezing Point (bingdian 冰点) has a post at openDemocracy on the Shanxi slavery case. Li’s point is that the sort of corruption that permits such atrocities to occur cannot be solved without systemic reforms:
If political reform is delayed even further, more serious political crises will emerge. The core [...]

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A few links, some of which might require a quick annotation or gloss on key words:
–Michael Turton reports on The View from Taiwan that The National Palace Museum in Taipei has begun digitizing its immense collection “of loot Chinese Art treasures.”
–EastSouthWestNorth has translated an article by the “Off Track Scholar” (壞軌書生) entitled “Commemorating the Return, [...]

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Simply stunning animation of a traditional Chinese painting that’s making the rounds on the Internet. The video was produced by the Shenzhen branch of the Institute of Digital Media Technology (IDMT), which is associated with Global Digital Creations (GDC). (h/t China Digital Times)

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