Cultural Heritage
What is Buddha jump Wall(佛跳墙)?
I was talking cock with Edgar via Msn asking what can one do on a rainy week when he shoot back say Singapore where got rain for oen whole week one..sigh.. But here in Shanghai, last week everyday rain at 1800HRS sharp, this week rain before 1200Hrs sharp. At this kind of time when you [...]
Anhui architecture, sculptures and carvings
Anhui Province is famous for Wood engravings found mainly in Chinese old architecture. In this photo, we were in Anhui for a class field trip. We visited a site where a couple of architectures were slowly relocated to another place for better conservation, far away from the massive pollution and making way for construction space.
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A visit to Jingdezhen - Hometown of China’s ceramic and porcerlain centre
Though I never really did internship as most universities require of their students, the Department of Museology in Fudan University ensured that their students had insights into the various area we can actually choose to work in. Among the places we visited, we touched on conversation practices, architectural practices, archaeology, museum management, as well as [...]
Leshan Giant Buddha
The Giant Buddha of Leshan (aka Dafo 乐山大佛) is the world’s tallest stone Buddha statue. It was carved out of a cliff face by an 8th-century monk in southern Szechuan province, near the city of Leshan. The Leshan Giant Buddha statue, carved out of a hillside in the eigth century, stands at 71m and is [...]
Mar 2008 - May 2008 news of China’s Heritage and Archaeology
Race against time to save relics
Terracotta figures in Xi’an suffer slight damage
Historic, cultural relics to undergo repair work
China to investigate cultural relic damages in quake zones
Age-old heritage site victim of quake in SW China
Qianmen St. to be ready before Olympics
Temples stand the test of time
China’s Inner Mongolia undertakes most ambitious Great Wall survey, repair
Renovation of [...]
