Month: January 2021

footage about china from bridgeman images

cultural heritage / By / 28th January 2021

img.: Film still from footage: “Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling, speaking about Britain’s backing of Communist China”, 1949, © Bridgeman Images.

Bridgeman Images is a UK provider for the distribution of fine art, cultural and historical media for reproduction, partner of United Archives, one of PAGODE’s consortium members.

Spanning centuries of visual communication, the collection includes reproductions of paintings, sculpture, textiles, maps and anthropological artefacts as well as newer forms of media including footages, newsreels and documentaries. Especially interesting to whomever engaged with Chinese heritage is the curated lightbox “China through the decades” with a selection of exclusive historical footages in the Bridgeman collection.

Visit the lightbox to preview 57 short films here.

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 general assembly

events / By / 28th January 2021

On 26 January the General Assembly of PAGODE project was called in an online meeting, to review the progress of the project and to plan the next activities for the remaining months. PAGODE is in facts going to end on 30 September 2021.

A very busy period is therefore ahead: with digitization to be completed; massive ingestion of new collections to be published in Europeana; a second round of the crowdsourcing campaign; automated metadata enrichments via Artificial Intelligence; and the preparation and launch of the PAGODE exhibition to be presented online as a virtual exhibition in Europeana, and to be hopefully inaugurated in physical form at the Museum of Graphics in Pisa, on 24th September, accompained with a collection day to engage local Chinese communities sharing photographs from family albums. The very last event of the project will then be on 27-28 September with the final conference organized by KIK-IRPA, unless travel restrictions will apply..

The meeting was open to partners and associate partners and included a presentation of the upcoming Europeana China thematic space, that will highlight in Europeana portal all the contents and editorials delivered by the PAGODE project.

img. screenshot from the Zoom meeting courtesy of Postscriptum.

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

fruits from china

cultural heritage / By / 22nd January 2021

img.: Fruit still life with whole and peeled red grapefruit (grapefruit) with wedges and blossom and on the right six lychees (hair fruits); Elisabeth Johanna Koning (1816-1887), Teylers Museum CC-BY-NC 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 “Fruits from China“: we sliced up some of China’s most popular fruits into this colourful gallery.

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

a chinese iconic ship: the junk

cultural heritage / By / 13th January 2021

The junk is a classic Chinese sailing vessel of ancient origin, designed as a warship but also used across centuries, and even today, for trade and maritime exploration.

In this blog, authored by Sofie Taes for Europeana in the context of PAGODE – Europeana China project, stories and curiosities are told about this iconic ship – whose silhouette looks so familar in any imagery of Chinese seascapes.

From early testimonies about junks to the epic history of the “Keying” crossing the oceans in mid 1800s, there is no need of being a naval enthusiast to enjoy these easy pills of cultural heritage.

Read the blog about the junk in Europeana website >>

More junks? Also enjoy a cherrypicked gallery in Europeana >>

image: CC-BY-NC-ND Östasiatiska museet via Europeana.

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