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Nº 2 – September-October
2007
Welcome
to the bimonthly newsletter of MedAsia:
Asian Centres of Southern Europe. This free e-publication is open to all.
Subscription details are at the bottom of the newsletter.
More information on Archives on Asia
While
preparing new activities connected with the Year for the History of Science, MedAsia
continues its activities by increasing the number of experts in its database
while providing on-line access to the papers on Southern European Archives on
Asia, presented in our first conference. In
this post-Summer issue, we include a series of conferences that will be held
after the success of ICAS 5
in Kuala Lumpur, as well as new initiatives from South
Europe aiming at promote further links among Asia researchers.
MedAsia News
Members information
Scholarly events
Research reports
Publications
Art Exhibitions
Credits
MedAsia News
>> Articles
from Southern European Archives, on the web. Papers presented at the first MedAsia
conference, devoted to resources for the study of Asia in Southern Europe,
held last September 2006
in Barcelona,
can already be downloaded from the Réseau-Asie website. They have different
approaches to the topic, some offering overviews of
the documentation, while others focus on the new contributions such resources
can offer. These
articles will add to the extraordinary number of websites describing holdings of
manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary
sources for the research scholar compiled
by Terry Abraham at the Univerity of Idaho
in the Repository of Primary Sources including a section for
Asia-Pacific http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/asia.html
>> Listing the contributions. The French
Archives on Asia, probably the largest body in Southern Europe, are
introduced by Patrice Morlat (Indes Savantes Publishers - Asian Archives in France) who qualifies them as a
“jungle where only the experienced researcher, assisted by qualified librarians
and archivists can work his way through”. Cheng Pei (Department of Literature and
Art, French National Library), on his part does a “Brief Overview of the
Asian Collections at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France”, and Gérard Moussay and Guillaume Arotçarena (The Archives of
the Foreign Missions in Paris), explain about the holdings of the French
Society for Foreign Missions (Société des Missions Etrangères), necessary to understand French relations
with Asia during the 17th and 18th centuries. In
Spanish, Dolors Folch (Universitat
Pompeu Fabra) deals with the
sources of the history of China in Spain (1555-1900), progressively
translated and downloaded on the web thanks to the project she directs, http://www.upf.edu/fhuma/eeao/projectes/che/principal.htm
and Noel Golvers
(F. Verbiest Instituut –
K.U. Leuven), deals with the documentation in
Greece from a Jesuit missionary in 17th century China, “The Latin
F. Verbiest copies in the National Library of
Athens.” On the other hand, historians such as Papin
or Menegon have opted for explaining the new
approaches offered by investigating further. Philippine Papin (École
Pratique des Hautes Études) refers to the new inroads for research through
the “The old inscriptions of Vietnam, source of a new vision of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries” and
Eugenio Menegon
(Boston University) to the archival repositories left by Chinese Christians,
through a brief sample such as a pupil in the Chinese College of Naples, Father
Pietro Zai (Cai Ruoxiang, 1739-1806). Frédéric Durand (Université
Toulouse II-Le Mirail) elaborates on the new
understanding of the world after the Iberian ships started to cross the
Oceans: “The cartography of the Orientals and Southern Europeans in the
beginning of the western exploration of South-East Asia
from the middle of the XVth century to the
beginning of the XVIIth century.” The article on
the role of historians when accessing documentation by Maurice Aymard (EHESS/MSH, Paris), titled “Quelles
archives pour quelle histoire?” uses his experience
when doing research on the history of Europe and the Mediterranean
sea.
http://www.reseau-asie.com/cgi-bin/prog/index.cgi?langue=en
Members Information
>> Youth
perspectives, European Celebrations and Human Security.
2007 coincides with a number of anniversaries, such as the European Union’s
50th year, the ASEAN’s 40th year and the Asia-Europe
Foundation’s tenth anniversary, therefore the ASEF University Alumni Network
(ASEFUAN) does not want to miss this occasion. Under the main title of ASEF@10,
ASEFUAN will hold its sixth annual general meeting, from the 2nd
to the 7th of September 2007 in the Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, that will focus on youth perspectives in the evolution of relations
between Asia and Europe and will be preceded by a meeting of the Alumni
Networks related to the ASEM (Asia Europe Meeting) process. ASEFUAN will
present a roadmap for the coming year as well as celebrating a Human Security
Forum, while the AGM will also review ASEFUAN projects and activities,
in an event co-organised by ASEFUAN and the
Research Unit on International Security and Cooperation (UNISCI) at the
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. For more information, www.asefuan.net or contact David Garcia Cantalapiedra at agm2007@asefuan.net. It is
interesting to note that the conference will also discuss the topic of Achieving Human Security: Inter-regional
Co-operation and Global Impact. The concept of Human Security
raises debates on the links between freedom from fear and freedom from want
and has extended to analyze the ways to respond to the new security threats
to human welfare and wellbeing. The International Development Studies
Conference, to be held in Bangkok
on October 4th-5th, 2007, is also well aware of this
concept. Noting that, following Amartya Sen, 'development can be seen as a process of expanding
the real freedoms that people enjoy,' the Bangkok conference will explore
further on the theoretical aspects of Human Security, look into the practical
implications of the concept in Asia and also, on the possibilities to
establish a regional network to foster research cooperation and debate on
Human Security. For more info http://humansecurityconf.polsci.chula.ac.th/
>> Francophone networking on Asia. On 26-28th September, the Reseau-Asia IMASIE Conference, focused on research and
academic circles, including doctorate students, young doctors and experts,
will be held again, after two years, at the Ecole
des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(EHESS), in Paris.
With around 1500 members, the biannual meeting aims at increasing interaction
and networking among French-speaking Asia scholars, not only by gathering them
for three days but also through panels
and themes with an obvious interdisciplinary approach such as Economy and
Environment, Violence, Tensions and Conflicts, Ritual Studies or Urban
Mutations. From the second conference in 2005, the will for Comparative
Approach expressed by the Scientific Committee has been followed by the
experts. A volume outlining the conferences and the debates held has been
published under the title Mondes Asiatiques. Recherches & enjeux, ((Paris : Les Indes Savantes, 2006) with
an introduction by Jean-François Sabouret. For those who want to attend, or desiring for more
information http://www.reseau-asie.com/cgi-bin/prog/pform.cgi?langue=en&Mcenter=colloque
>> Debate on Afghanistan. The Cidob
Foundation, one of the main Spanish think-tanks, holds in Barcelona
on September 17-18 an international conference on Afghanistan with representatives
of the United Nations, members of the Afghan government, deputies, and
organizations such as the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation unit, the Asian
Development Bank, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission or the
International Crisis Group. The participants will discuss on the role of the international
community in the transformation of the country, on its reconstruction and
stabilization and on advances in Human Rights. More information at http://www.cidob.org/en/actividades/asia/afganistan_a_debate
>> Summer Courses on Asia in Southern European universities. Here we give an
account of the summer courses on Asia
offered by Mediterranean universities last Summer, showing an increase
in number, quality and originality. The
University “Orientale” of Naples,
Italy, had a summer school
on “Emotions in East Asian Social Life: Theory and Practice,” offering for
the first time in Europe the opportunity to
gain expertise in all aspects of East Asian emotion management.
Directed by Christophe Jaffrelot,
director of the CERI and one of the foremost specialists of Asia,
the courses were given by an international team of experts, such as Alberto
Postigliola, Anne Cheng, Mara Caira
and Maurizio Marinelli and are aimed at persons
interested in improving their intercultural communication skills, both students and
professors alike. http://www.iuo.it/emotions/summerschool.htm.
The Parisien
Center for International Studies and
Research offered its courses entirely in English (“India: Surprising Modernity” and
“China Risen: How it changes and changes us”) at the International Studies
Center (CÉRIUM) at the Université de Montréal. http://www.ceri-sciences-po.org/ In Spain,
the Complutense
University organized two
courses with Casa-Asia, one on the Future of China in the World, with the
presence of Wang Jisi and Robert Shutter, directed
by Fernando Delage and Pablo Buste
and a second one organised by the Asia Research Group on
the Silk Route,
directed by M. Jesus
Ferro was also on offer. http://www.ucm.es/info/cv/prog.html
Scholarly events
>> Sports and
Chinese Studies. The Olympic
Games loom large and scholars are aware of the attention they provoke,
therefore the 3rd
International Forum on Chinese Studies, to be held in Lisbon
and Porto next February 2008 by the
Portuguese Institute of Sinology, has the aim of analyzing the implications
of the Olympic Games in several distinct fields of knowledge. Under the topic
of Games, Leisure and Sports, academics and researchers are invited to
submit papers on: games, leisure and sports in Macao, Games and competitions
in Ancient China; on practical examples of applied feng-shui
and Chinese Traditional Medicine in connection with sporting activities; and
on scientific validation of Chinese Traditional Medicine in the treatment of
rare diseases; also, on the main focus of Portuguese interest on
China, Macau. For more info and to see the venue of each conference: http://www.ipsinologia.pt/papers.html
>> List of convenors for the EAJS Conference. The
eight sections for the 12th International Conference of the European
Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), to be held in September 2008 at Salento University in the Italian Lecce Peninsula,
already have their conveners. Oliver Mayer (Aichi University of Education)
and Rémi Scoccimaro (Institut d'Asie Orientale) for Urban and Environmental Studies. Barbara Pizziconi (University
of London, SOAS), Arkadiusz Jablonski (Adam Mickiewicz
University) and Michaela Oberwinkler (Tübingen University)
for Linguistics and Language Teaching. Matthew Königsberg
(Freie Universität Berlin) Diana Donath (Independent) and Robert Omar Khan for Literature.
Peter Eckersall (University of Melbourne), Gunhild Borggreen (University
of Copenhagen) and Donatella Failla
(Museum of Japanese Art, Genoa) for Visual and Performing Arts. Anemone Platz (Aarhus
University) and Ingrid Getreuer-Kargl (University of Vienna)
for Anthropology and Sociology. Iris Wieczorek
(Institute for Asian Affairs, Hamburg) and Parissa Haghirian (Sophia University) for Economics and Economic
History. Sven Saaler (The University
of Tokyo) and Dick Stegewerns (Osaka
Sangyo University)
for History, Politics and International Relations. And, finally, Susanne Formanek (Austrian
Academy of Sciences) and Galen Amstutz (Ryukoku University)
for Religion and History of Ideas. Those who want to participate can write to
them directly or through the EAJS website http://www.eajs.org/english/next_conference.html#Loc
or the Conference website www.eajsconference.unile.it
>>
The 10th International Conference on
Thai Studies. Panels, abstracts and outlines of the conferences are
already prepared in advance of the forthcoming (9-11 January 2008) Conference
on Thai Studies organized by the Thai Khadi Research Institute
in Thammasat University, Bangkok, as a new step
in promote interdisciplinary research and in-depth study of Thai culture and
society, under the title Thai Societies in a Transnationalized
World.
From a total of 30 panels, topics such as Problems in the consolidation of
Democracy, the Monarchy and the Transformation of Local Power have received
special attention by scholars. Form more info http://www.thaiconference.tu.ac.th/index.html E-mail: thaiconference@gmail.co
>> The role of poetry inside Japanese literature. The department of East Asia Studies at the Universita Ca' Foscari in Venize will hold a
day conference next September 19th on Japanese Literature with the
participation of Japanese and Italian scholars. They will focus on the
presence and significance of poetry in the texts of other literary genres in
order to further explore the role of this form of expression, so crucial,
even nowadays, for artistic expression, when poetic texts appear on the front
page of every major newspaper. http://venus.unive.it/dsao//webpages/docs/convegni/giappone07/giappone07.html
>> Mediterranean
comparisons in Asia. The
ideas of endorsing maritime history as a part of world history and
downgrading the importance of nation-states when studying the history of Asia
are increasingly popular, even being proposed by officials, such as occurred in
2004 when Vietnam proposed a project called "Two Corridors and One
Rim" (linking Yunnan and Guangxi
with Hanoi and Haiphong, while considering Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan
Island, northern and central Vietnam, and Laos as part of the same coast) and
China accepted, opening the possibility to reshape the relationships and
interchanges between those regions involved, and even the concepts of East
and Southeast Asia. In order to explore further the possibilities of this
emergent form of regional integration, the active Manchu scholar Li Tana (Division of Pacific and Asian History, ANU) and Gu Xiao Song (Guangxi Academy
of Social Sciences, Nanning,
Guangxi) are organizing an International Workshop
on the Gulf of Tonking through History in Nanning.
They compare the area with the Mediterranean sea, both because of the dozens
of ethnic groups, languages, dialects and religions that exist here and have
repeatedly cross-fertilized each other, and also due to the methodological
approaches provided by Fernand Braudel
in his excellent Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme, XVe-XVIIIe siècle (1967-79),
followed later by China scholar Dennys Lombart
(1938-1998), helping to simultaneously "rethink" both coasts
of the South China Sea as two halves of a geographical and historical
ensemble. The Braudelian approach has received
increased attention in Asia Studies; Heather
Sutherland published an article in 2003 on the “Mediterranean
Analogy” in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and Barbara Watson
Andaya referred to it in her presidential address
at the Annual Meeting of the AAS in 2006. For further info tana.li@anu.edu.au
>> Prizes and numerous debates at ICAS 5. The
International Convention of Asian Scholars, the largest Asian studies event
outside the annual AAS Conferences, took place last August at Kuala Lumpur thanks to the initiative of the
International Institute for Asian Studies, this time working together with
the Institute of Occidental Studies (IKON), the Institute
of The Malay World and Civilization
(ATMA) and the Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia.
According to the
organizers, a total of 338 panels, more than 1500 participants from 60 different
countries and a large number of stands from publishers featuring study
materials as well as limited edition publications. Also
taking place are a number of additional activities, such
as keynote presentations, additional meetings and the announcement of the next
ICAS 6 Conference at Daejeon, the Korean capital of
Science at the heart of the Korean Peninsula. Traditional prizes
for scientific books published in 2005 and 2006 included the award to Madeline
Zelin's for the ‘Best study in
the field of the Humanities’, for
his study of industrial enterprise in 19th and early 20th
century China, demonstrating
the capacity of entrepreneurs to pool financial resources through
lineage-based trusts (The Merchants of Zigong, Columbia University Press
2006). Pei-Chia Lan,
received the ‘Best study in the field of Social Sciences’ for his
contribution to the sociology of
international migration
by studying discrimatory boundaries
against the foreign "other" in Taiwan and how foreign domestic
workers negotiate their identities using their cultural capital (Global Cinderellas. Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers
in Taiwan, Duke
University Press 2006). Karen Laura Thornber received the ‘Best PhD in the
field of Asian Studies’ award for his densely empirical account that
shows Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese writers reading, borrowing
from, and recasting literary vernaculars in the (semi)colonial context of the
1895-1945 years. (Negotiating and Reconfiguring
Japan and Japanese Literature
in Polyintertextual East Asian Contact Zones: Japan, China,
Korea, Taiwan, PhD Harvard
University). The newly created “Colleagues Choice Award” was for Nordin Hussin, who wrote a pioneering study of
urban history comparing Melaka and Penang in the context of
overall trends and how these factors were influenced by trade as well as
policies, and documenting the impact of imperialist ambitions on the economy
and society of two major trading centres. (Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and
English Penang, 1780-1830, NIAS Press 2006). A selection of the papers will be published
by Amsterdam University Press.
Research reports
>> Hard data
on Asian perceptions of Europe. A number
of studies are offering for the first time rigorous analysis on how Asians
understand Europe through the use of a large
body of research and extensive polls. Professor Martin Holland (University of
Canterbury) has toured different countries presenting a lecture on “The European
Union through the Eyes of Asia: A Comparative Study of Media Perception”,
following on from years of research leading a project on “Public, Elite
and Media perceptions of the EU in Asia-Pacific region,” in
collaboration a consortium of Asian universities under the ESiA platform of major newspapers and TV channels in 5
Asian countries. ASEF has collaborated in the research and pays attention to
this topic which was the focus of a meeting in Hamburg last May titled “Strategic
Issues in Asia-Europe Relations: Perspectives from the media”. Together with
Natalia Chaban, Holland has edited a
book titled “The EU through the eyes of the Asia-Pacific: Public
Perceptions and media representations” which covers the first phase of
this investigation; the next step will be an information and attitude survey
of the general public in the target countries. In Spain, the Elcano
Institute has finalized a report on “The image of Spain in China,” developed
in order to provide additional information in preparation of “The Year of
Spain in China”, and following another report in 2005 on the image of Spain
in Japan before the Aichi World Expo. Both books can be downloaded at: http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano/Pub_Libro
It is expected that the results of those studies
will soon have policy implications.
Publications
>> Iberia
and Safavid Persia: The sources and printed
publications.
The first European maritime power to come to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman
and to establish control over the sea lanes and strategic choke points in order to control trade flows was Portugal, after Pero
de Corvilha visited the Persian
Gulf in 1489. Until 1720, when the Portuguese left the area - coinciding
with the demise of the Safavid Dynasty (1736) in
Persia - the mutual interaction generated a number of documents, accounts,
pamphlets and letters that provide information on the people the Portuguese
dealt with, although most of those documents refer to the Portuguese Empire
and its “Estado da
India,” in charge of trade and expansion to the East and frequently mixed
Portuguese and Spanish subjects. Supported by the Sultan
Qaboos Cultural Center,
Willem Floor and Farhad Hakimzadeh
have written a most comprehensive book researching this topic, The Hispano-Portuguese Empire and its contacts with
Safavid Persia,
the Kingdom of Hormuz and Yarubid
Oman
from 1489 to 1720 and
includes:
A) Bibliography of printed publications 1508
to 2007, 540 pp. (Peeters Publishers in association with the
Iran Heritage Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution - Freer Gallery of
Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery). It includes
over 2700 publications each with full bibliographic details and collations,
for every edition of every book and article ever published on the subject
matter in more than 10 languages. B) Alphabetical listing by names of authors
and titles of publications with extensive cross referencing. C) Maps showing
shifting territorial control during the 16th and 17th centuries. D)
Chronological and genealogical tables for the Kings of Portugal; Kings of
Spain; Popes of the Catholic Church; Safavid Kings
of Persia; Kings of Hormuz; Yarubid
Imams of Oman; Governors of Basra; Portuguese Viceroys and Governors and
Governing Committees of India; Portuguese Captains of Hormuz
and Portuguese Captains of Muscat and E) 10,000 word introduction and
historical context. For further info: http://www.iranheritage.org//portuguesebibliography/
>> The China Trade and Macau
in 18th century. The Dutch East India (VOC)
company had a crucial role along Asian waters during the 17th and
18th centuries, much beyond its colonies in Southeast Asia and in
contact with Asian traders as with other colonial powers like Portugal. In
order to learn about historical trade in Asian waters at the time, the Dagregisters compiled by Dutch officials were very
significant since they contained very detailed information about all aspects
of trade, commodities, ships and persons. Thanks to the Macau Cultural
Affairs Bureau, http://www.icm.gov.mo/indexE.asp
Paul Van Dyke (with revisions by Cynthia Viallé)
has recently translated some of the registers on the Pearl River Delta,
helping Asia scholars by providing data not available from any other language
sources. The first volume of the “The Canton-Macao Dagregisters
(1762)” is now in print, and successive ones will follow soon, according to
Van Dyke’s comments. For further information: rci@icm.gov.mo
>> China
Insights - looking for columnists. A new initiative from Southern
Europe towards Asia, a portal and e-magazine intended to portray business,
science and information technology in China is about to start and is looking
for columnists aiming to make regular contributions on those areas as well as
other hot topics, such as the forthcoming Olympics, Tourism or Study in
China. The editors-in-chief of China
Insights: In Business, Science, Information Technologies, Society are Miltiadis
D. Lytras, from the Research Academic
Computer Technology Institute – CTI, in Patra, Greece, and Patricia Ordóñez
de Pablos, from the Dept. of Business
Administration and Accounting of the University
of Oviedo, in Spain. For more info: lytras@ceid.upatras.gr
>> Sussex enters
into Asian Studies. the
Sussex Library of Asian Studies is a new collection to publish original
scholarly work in various disciplines – particularly Economics, Education,
Religion, History, Politics, Gender, Comparative studies with the West, and
Regional Studies in Asia, and is to be launched by 2008,. The series editor
is Mina Roces (School of History,
The University of New South Wales, Sydney) and will start the collection with
an edited book with Louise Edwards on The
Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas. For information and proposal
submissions, contact her at m.roces@unsw.edu.au
>>
Research on Asia at Portugal.
The Portuguese Institute of International and Strategic Studies (Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos e Internacionais)
is publishing since the year 1995 some books as a result of the diverse
projects in relation with Asia, that started in
1995, as a result of the processes of unification in China, particularly in Hong Kong and Macau. After that, the independence of Timor-Leste has promoted a new focus on Southeast Asia and,
since the year 2003, the Foundation for Science and Technology has funded a
project to study on the Chinese Business Communities in Portugal and, in
general, the relations between the European Union and China. For the list of
reports, the latest edited by Miguel Santos Neves and
Brian Bridges and titled Europe, China,
and the Two Sars. Towards a New Era (Palgrave) in http://www.ieei.pt/programas/post.php?id=48
Web sites
>> China
Economic Databases (CED) project. A superb compilation of data
relevant to the Chinese economy from the Center for China Studies (National Chengchi University,
Taipei, Taiwan). The website does not
only offer nine databases, a list of governmental agencies and research
institutions etc. related to China’s economy and up-to-date information from
government bodies, but also relevant scholarly articles and even books and
book-chapters. http://ics.nccu.edu.tw/eced/
>> Scheduling
trips to Japan.
Now that Japan
is so cheap for European visitors, the websites providing schedules add a new
reason to visit the country, offering the possibility of easy planning
without the need to speak the language. Hyperdia is
already considered one of the most reliable websites in Japan
permitting calculation of travelling time and
transfers within the country www.hyperdia.com,
besides the list of train and bus schedules offered by most major stations. Navitime offers also information about taxi fares,
usually needed when intending to stay at Japanese hotels or ryokan, http://www.navitime.co.jp/.
Jorudan also offers alternatives in transport. http://www.jorudan.co.jp/.
Since mobile phones from outside Japan can’t work in the country, the
prepaid phone service is most useful and the airport can be one of the most convenient
places to access it.
>> Japanese-Islamic Relations in
History. The Shingetsu Institute has recently been created in the Japanese town of Kitakyushu,
focusing on Japanese relations with the Islamic world as well as on the
Muslim minorities in the country. It aims at bringing
together in one place all of the published resources on Japan’s relations
with Islamic peoples, with the exception of articles in daily newspapers and
publishes a excellent newsletter on issues related to Muslim countries. Furthermore,
a biannual peer-reviewed Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations whose
second issue has just been published with articles on historical relations.
http://www.shingetsuinstitute.com/publications_current.htm
Exhibitions
>> Portuguese
navigators at the Smithsonian. The Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute is
holding until the month of September the “most ambitious” exhibition in its
19-year history, "Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the
16th and 17th Centuries" with the support of the
Portuguese Ministry of Culture as well as many other institutions sponsoring
specific sections of the exhibition. The encounters of the Portuguese
navigators led to the creation of highly original works of art and the
exhibition presents approximately 250 objects produced by each of the
cultures touched by Portugal's
early trade routes, some intended for export and others for domestic use. The
coasts eastward from the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean are obviously
included, as well as India,
China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Among the objects included are Indian mother-of-pearl vessels that were given
precious silver-gilt mounts when they arrived in Europe
in the 16th century, and scientific instruments created for the Imperial Chinese Court
by early Jesuit missionaries. A three-volume catalogue containing numerous
illustrated essays and color reproductions of each of the objects on show
will accompany the exhibition, as well as a number of educational public
programs, such as films, musical performances and lectures. http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/comingsoon/Portugal.htm
>> New acquisitions at Musee Guimet. The Guimet Museum
of Asiatic art, just five minutes walking from the Eiffel Tower, has
undergone a profound restructuration of its spaces along
the last decade, directed by Henri and Bruno Gaudin,
in order to offer a better overview of its art collections, specially the
Khmer objects. Now, until 13 December, after the wonderful exposition on
treasures from the Afghan’s Kabul National Museum, Guimet
Museum offers a new one on its acquisitions along the last decade after 1996,
De L'Inde au Japon, 10 ans d'acquisitions au Musée Guimet announced to be specially important and in
line with the architectural renovation. An excellent overview of the new
pieces of the museum, some of them donations, in http://www.guimet.fr/De-l-Inde-au-Japon-10-ans-d,588
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