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Dutch Design in China: Giel Groothuis at TEDxEutropolis

A co-development model for cross border creative industry business support.

Giel Groothuis has a strong background in architecture and design. He has working and living in Shanghai since 2005 and worked on a large number of design projects in China. He is the founder of FAR Architecture and Design Center. This organisation aims to enrich China's design culture, trigger a process of cross-cultural discourse and stimulate design knowledge exchange.

During the 2010 World Expo Mr. Groothuis worked for the Dutch Culture Centre and City of Rotterdam Pavilion. He currently is the director of the Dutch Design Workspace. This incubator for Dutch Design brands is funded by a unique combination of Dutch ministries, cities and commercial organisations.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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Guangxi | Wikipedia audio article

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Guangxi

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Guangxi ([kwàŋ.ɕí] (listen); formerly romanised as Kwangsi; Chinese: 广西; Zhuang: Gvangjsih), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is a Chinese autonomous region in South Central China, bordering Vietnam. Formerly a province, Guangxi became an autonomous region in 1958.
Guangxi's location, in mountainous terrain in the far south of China, has placed it on the frontier of Chinese civilization throughout much of China's history. The current name Guang means expanse and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in 226 AD. It was given provincial level status during the Yuan dynasty, but even into the 20th century it was considered an open, wild territory.
The abbreviation of the region is 桂 (Pinyin: Guì; Zhuang: Gvei), which comes from the name of the city of Guilin, the provincial capital during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The current capital is Nanning.

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Historiography | Wikipedia audio article

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Historiography

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Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches. Scholars discuss historiography by topic – such as the historiography of the United Kingdom, the historiography of Canada, historiography of the British Empire, the historiography of early Islam, the historiography of China – and different approaches and genres, such as political history and social history. Beginning in the nineteenth century, with the ascent of academic history, there developed a body of historiographic literature. The extent to which historians are influenced by their own groups and loyalties – such as to their nation state – is a debated question.The research interests of historians change over time, and there has been a shift away from traditional diplomatic, economic, and political history toward newer approaches, especially social and cultural studies. From 1975 to 1995, the proportion of professors of history in American universities identifying with social history increased from 31 to 41 percent, while the proportion of political historians decreased from 40 to 30 percent. In 2007, of 5,723 faculty in the departments of history at British universities, 1,644 (29%) identified themselves with social history and 1,425 (25%) identified themselves with political history.