We are excited to bring to your attention a cultural event taking place this fall at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibition, China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta, running through January 7, 2024, promises to be an enriching experience. Our Center's Director, Dr. Jiang Wu, has been invited to contribute to the exhibition catalog, specifically focusing on the Buddhist aspect with an article titled "Jiangnan Buddhism in Time and Space," set to be published in December 2023.
About the Exhibition:
China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta is the first exhibition in the West that focuses on the artistic production and cultural impact of a region located in the coastal area south of the Yangzi River.
Called Jiangnan, this region has throughout large parts of its history been one of the wealthiest, most populous, and most fertile lands. For millennia, it has been an area of rich agriculture, extensive trade, and influential artistic production. Art from Jiangnan—home to such great cities as Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Nanjing, as well as to hilly picturesque landscapes stretched along rivers and lakes—has defined the image of traditional China for the world.
The exhibition features more than 200 objects from Neolithic times to the 18th century, ranging from jade, silk, prints, and paintings to porcelain, lacquer, and bamboo carvings. Jiangnan’s lush, green scenery inspired artists to conceive it as heaven on earth. Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta explores how this region gained a leading role in China’s artistic production and how it succeeded in setting cultural standards. This international exhibition presents works of art from private and public collections and museums in the United States, Europe, China, and Japan.
For more details about the exhibition, please visit: https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/china%27s-southern-paradise-treasures-lower-yangzi-delta
There are related events on November 4-5 that offer free registration, please follow this link: https://www.clevelandart.org/node/138437/related-events
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