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Poly Art Museum, Beijing China vesves Museum of Contemporary Arts Singapore 2017.3.21 - 3.24 Curator: Allison Liu Chen Wen Hsi: A Retrospective In Conjunction with SG50 纪念新加坡建国50周年.
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Does this museum have China’s coolest gift shop?
The gift shop is an inevitable feature of almost all tourist attractions, but one of Beijing’s top sites has one that really stands out, for both the quirkiness of its products and its financial success. The Palace Museum, otherwise known as the Forbidden City, began its creative endeavor in 2007 when it produced souvenirs for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Over the next 10 years, the museum has produced nearly 10,000 creative cultural items featuring the imperial palace and its exhibits.
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Beijing Police Museum Tour
Formerly site of the Citibank Beijing branch, the Beijing Police Museum / 北京警察博物馆 is housed within a magnificent example of Western-style architecture at 36 Dongjiaominxiang in the Beijing Legation Quarter / 东交民巷 / 東交民巷.
Start at the fourth floor, where you get to shoot laser pistols at moving targets, and work your way down through a collection of over 8,000 police tools and weapons from the Han Dynasty through to the present. The exhibit on fingerprint forensics is a highlight, as is the gruesome second-floor display of old-fashioned torture devices and photos (families with kids would be advised to skip it). On the first floor there's an exhibit detailing the police force's origins and history - don't miss the section on Kuomintang reactionary agents and the signed, fingerprinted confessions from failed subversion schemes.
Chen Wen Hsi Retrospective, Poly Art Museum & MoCA, Bergen Art Singapore
Poly Art Museum, Beijing China & Museum of Contemporary Arts Singapore
2015.3.21 - 3.24
Curator: Allison Liu
Chen Wen Hsi: A Retrospective
In Conjunction with SG50
纪念新加坡建国50周年巨献
北京保利艺术馆与新加坡当代美术馆协手推出 “ 陈文希精品回顾展”
策展人：刘岱松
新加坡伯恒艺术投资呈献
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This art museum tells you about life in old Beijing!
Why is this Chinese art museum attractive to foreigners living in China? China Matters finds out more.
Poly & Chai by Yung Ho Chang
One of China's leading architects - Yung Ho Chang - created a specially designed installation, Poly & Chai, in the V&A's John Madejski Garden which was on display from June-September 2008.
Chang devised a set of free standing screens inspired by traditional Chinese garden design that were arranged around the space for visitors to walk through. The screens were made from green recyclable plastic paving blocks, commonly used in parking lots, driveways and construction sites all over China. With an extremely banal and utilitarian material Yung Ho Chang has created a sumptuous garden space.
CHINA: STOLEN RELICS RETURNED
(29 May 2000) English/Nat
A long journey home for three looted bronze animal heads ended in Beijing recently, when the relics were put on display for the public.
The antiques were stolen two centuries ago when British and French soldiers plundered Beijing's Old Summer Palace.
But they were purchased back, for several million dollars, by a Chinese company during auctions in Hong Kong.
Now China plans to launch a global search to recover art items held by collectors overseas but which they consider national treasures.
Chinese and foreign reporters gathered at Beijing International Airport last week to witness the return of three relics from the Qing Dynasty, which presided from 1644 until 1911.
The relics were looted from the Old Summer Palace by invading foreign soldiers a hundred and-40 years ago.
The three antiques, considered to be cultural treasures, are bronze heads of a monkey, a tiger and a bull.
They're now back in Beijing thanks to the buying power of the China Poly Group.
This is an industrial conglomerate with interests in arms, property and telecommunications and a strong connection to the People's Liberation Army.
Although these three are now back, another five heads are still missing and believed to be in the hands of foreign collectors.
Originally there were twelve, representing the twelve Chinese astrological zodiac figures and they would have decorated the imperial garden of the Old Summer Palace - destroyed by French and British troops in 1860.
The China Poly Group paid over two million U-S dollars just for the tiger's head and another two million U-S dollars for the monkey and bull heads.
They had to bid for them at auction in Hong Kong.
The recovered relics will be displayed before the public at the Poly Plaza for one month before they are placed in their art museum.
This houses more than a hundred bronze artefacts collected by the Poly Group from overseas collectors in the past few years.
But when the relics went up for auction in Hong Kong earlier this month they almost caused a riot on the steps of the auction house, Sotheby's.
The demonstrators were protesting because they feared that these and other relics would go to collections outside of China.
Although in the end it was a Chinese company that bought the relics protesters were still unhappy the antiques weren't going directly back to the Chinese government.
Even so, representatives from Sotheby's said the auction was legal.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
In offering these items for sale, Sotheby's has fully observed and complied with all local laws and international treaties. We are very pleased that both lots were purchased by mainland Chinese. Carlton Rochell, managing director of China and Southeast Asia says and I quote, 'We recognize and respect the contrasting viewpoints expressed and we are extremely sensitive to cultural property issues.'
SUPER CAPTION: Peter Cheung, Sotheby's Deputy Director China and Southeast
Asia
But many critics haven't been appeased.
They feel the fact the item were taken from China in the first place is bad enough.
That China has had to bid for them at international auction rooms, they feel, adds insult to injury.
The bronze animal heads were taken from the Old Summer House in the 19th century during the Second Opium War.
British and French troops burnt the wooden Chinese pavilions and temples, leaving only marble facades, some broken columns and traces of fountains.
The Fountains were rendered in stone and bronze with human forms and heads of animals - each spouting water for two hours in turn - but they were removed by the enemy soldiers who made off with five of the animal busts.
Nowadays tourists clamber over the ruins and use them as backdrops for photographs.
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CHINA: BEIJING: STOLEN TREASURES/ANTIQUITIES
Mandarin/Nat
Foreign plunder and cultural neglect have contributed to the loss of countless national treasures from historical sites and sacred ruins across China.
Now, powerful, rich groups of mainland entrepreneurs are joining forces and pooling their resources to try and retrieve those valuable artefacts which are surfacing on the international art market.
If famous auction houses can't be persuaded to return the works of art stolen from China, wealthy groups are simply paying whatever it costs to bring home these priceless pieces of history.
Tourists pose for pictures and clamber over the ruins at Beijing's Old Summer Palace.
The ancient monument was built during the reign of the Manchu Emperor Qianlong.
Jesuit missionary friends of the Emperor were commissioned in 1747 to design the Rococo palace, and work as architects for the structure's European-style palaces, surrounded by elaborate fountains and baroque statuary.
Europeans became enemies a century later during the Second Opium War.
British and French troops burnt the wooden Chinese pavilions and temples, leaving only marble facades, some broken columns and traces of fountains.
Many ancient historical relics were looted at this time.
Fountains, here rendered in stone and bronze with human forms and heads of animals from the Chinese zodiac- each spouting water for two hours in turn -were removed by enemy soldiers who made off with five of the animal busts.
These ruins are all that's left of the palace itself.
They attract thousands of visitors each year.
So many tourists visit the monument, that efforts are being made to try and limit the number of people allowed to explore the ruins.
China is proud of its cultural heritage, and many feel that historical treasures plundered by foreign armies during the Opium Wars should be returned.
SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)
I believe the national treasures should be returned to China. They shouldn't be auctioned.
SUPER: Vox Pop, tourist
SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)
Not only should we take them back, it's most important to stop them from being taken out of China again. This is important.
SUPER: Vox Pop, tourist
Three of those bronze heads - the monkey, ox and tiger - appeared for sale on the international art market last week in Hong Kong when Christie's and Sotheby's placed the items up for auction to the highest bidder.
The sales caused widespread consternation among many Hong Kong and mainland Chinese.
Scores of demonstrators gathered outside Sotheby's Hong Kong auction house as the relics were being auctioned off inside, and police were called to the scene as scuffles broke out.
The protestors said the antiquities belonged to the Chinese people and had been looted by French and British troops in 1860.
Stepping in to defend the mainland's position and rescue her stolen national treasures is the China Poly Group, an industrial conglomerate with interests in arms, property and telecommunications.
Adding art to its list of interests, the China Poly Group with its strong connection to the People's Liberation Army, has embarked on a purchasing spree to buy back what China has lost to thieves.
The group spent over four million U-S dollars in Hong Kong to purchase the three bronze heads which it intends to place in this special Beijing museum filled with looted Chinese bronzes.
The Poly Group's mission is defined by a museum curator.
SOUND BITE: (Mandarin)
If we only rely on government finances and government protection, it's not realistic. It need more private enterprises and people to join this movement to protect our antiquities. This should be the historical trend.
SUPER CAPTION: Mr. Jiang, Assistant Museum Director
SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)
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