Month: December 2020

yin and yang

cultural heritage / By / 15th December 2020

img.: Illustration titled ‘Peace through anarchy’ depicts the balance of inflammation in blood vessels. Three states; anarchy (Circle-A symbol; left), balance (yin-yang; centre) and peace (CND symbol; right) are shown, each essential for the health and wellbeing of our blood vessels.; Neil Dufton, Wellcome collection CC-BY via Europeana .

Flows of people, objects and knowledge went back and forth between Europe and China across centuries, and are witnessed by a wealth of China-related cultural heritage preserved in European Institutions.
Discover the interesting stories that are told in digitized collections available on Europeana, carefully curated and selected by the Editorial Team of EU funded PAGODE – Europeana China project.

Today’s gallery is about “Yin and Yang“.

The idea of opposite forces complementing each other is at the core of many belief systems. The Ancient Chinese concept of yin & yang is often represented by black & white ‘taijitu’, but also by broken and solid lines sometimes combined into trigrams.

Visit the gallery on Europeana.eu!

PAGODE – Europeana China is co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility Programme of the European Union, under GA n. INEA/CEF/ICT/A2019/1931839

pagode joins the uncharted community

project / By / 14th January 2021

PAGODE recently joined the community of UNCHARTED associate members.

UNCHARTED is a four years project which aims to identify, contextualize, understand, measure and analyse the emergence and conformation of the values of culture from an interdisciplinary, collaborative and pluralistic perspective. Being PAGODE dedicated to highlighting the connections between European and Chinese culture, it offers an unique point of view for reflections on the representation of different cultures and their blending with the European ones.

In terms of research, UNCHARTED will engage the community of members and associate members to investigate the plurality of values of culture in different domains. Members of the community can contribute in the research with their experiences and expertise, responding to surveys and questionnaires, attending conferences, workshops and local encounters. Policy briefs, guidelines and other research outcomes will derive from UNCHARTED, also including a special book.

UNCHARTED website: https://uncharted-culture.eu/

image courtesy of the UNCHARTED project.

PAGODE – Europeana China is co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility Programme of the European Union, under GA n. INEA/CEF/ICT/A2019/1931839