Whether in Hong Kong or Europe, museums that showcase exhibitions related to China sometimes succumb to Xi Jinping’s warning for the arts to foster “correct” viewpoints of history and culture. The latest example of these...
Some recent restrictions placed on historical books, museum exhibits, and academic discourse have brought renewed attention to the Chinese Communist Party’s attempts to rewrite history, control the historical narrative, and...
On May 18, a social media post (archived here) announced the impending closure and demolition of a well-known museum dedicated to documenting the lives and improving the welfare of China’s migrant workers. The Museum of Working...
On Friday, Hong Kong’s new museum of visual culture, M+, made its debut to the public. A two-decade-long, billion-dollar project considered the crown jewel of West Kowloon, it will test the limits of how far the National...
A Hong Kong June 4 museum shuttered by authorities earlier this year has reopened online under new leadership based outside of Hong Kong. The museum first opened in 2014 on the 25th anniversary of People’s Daily’s infamous...
On July 1, the Chinese Communist Party will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. The Party was actually founded on July 23 but the mixup, although acknowledged, has never been rectified—perhaps because the date has a...
At The Wall Street Journal this week, Chun Han Wong describes a museum "upgrade" in...
Ningxia’s Yinchuan Musuem of Contemporary Art has removed the work of artist-activist Ai...
Last Saturday marked the 27th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy...
After Hu Yaobang died a quarter-century ago last month, thousands of Peking University students...
A collection of artist Xu Bing’s work is on display at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in an...
As China gears up for Mao Zedong’s lavish 120th birthday anniversary celebrations, Denise Ho...
The Global Times report on a Hebei museum that has been shut down after many of its exhibits were discovered to be forgeries: The Jibaozhai Museum in Erpu village, Jizhou, has had its license revoked by Jizhou civil affairs...
When a number of precious objects on loan from a Hong Kong collector were stolen from the Forbidden City, the art world was taken by surprise that artwork in Beijing’s major museum weren’t more carefully guarded....
As an internationally-acclaimed artist, Ai Weiwei has received a great deal of global attention and concern following his disappearance and detention while he is investigated for alleged “economic crimes.” In an...
The New York Times reports on the newly refurbished National Museum of China, centrally located in Tiananmen Square, and the selective history that is on display there: China spent more than a decade and nearly $400 million to...
On his blog, Evan Osnos interviews Miriam Clifford, Cathy Giangrande, and Antony White, authors of China: Museums, about the unusual and sometimes little known museums they visited: Of the two hundred and fifteen sites that you...
Zhang Lijia shares her reflections on the museum dedicated to the revolutionary song “‘Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China” at The China Beat: The massive museum, a modern structure of grey...
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