London's
most well-known cultural institutions gathered together last week to promote the
metropolis' autumn cultural season, which will highlight an exhibition about
China's Ming Dynasty.
The exhibition -- Ming: 50 years that changed China -- focuses on 1400-1450, a key
period in the dynasty's early years and will be held from 18th September
2014 to 5th January 2015 at the British Museum in London.
Between 1400 and 1450, China was a
global superpower run by one family -- the Ming dynasty, which established
Beijing as the capital and built the Forbidden City.
During this period, Ming China was
thoroughly connected with the outside world. Chinese artists absorbed many
fascinating influences and created some of the most beautiful objects and
paintings ever made.
The exhibition will feature a range of
these spectacular objects - including exquisite porcelain, gold, jewelry,
furniture, paintings, sculptures and textiles - from museums across China and
the rest of the world. Many of them have only been very recently discovered and
have never been seen outside China.
At the launch event of the cultural
season, Chinese Ambassador to Britain Liu Xiaoming said the exhibition "is
the most valuable way to introduce Chinese culture to the public across the
Britain."
"This exhibition will also play a
big role and lay a good foundation for the Year of China-UK Cultural Exchange
in 2015...I wish the London autumn cultural season a great success and I look
forward to many more excellent cultural events in London," Liu said.
Besides the Ming dynasty exhibition, the
stellar line-up of shows and exhibitions to take place in the upcoming autumn
includes exhibitions of English Romantic landscape painter Joseph Mallord
William Turner's works and German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer's works as
well as a Sherlock Holmes exhibition.
The autumn cultural season is expected
to attract more than two million visitors.
Xinhua
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