Historian Zhao Weiqing (赵伟清) has contributed a new essay on the Virtual Shanghai platform on the process and underlying factors of change in the space of cinema in the foreign settlements of Shanghai before...
At long last ! This item has been missing for a long time on the Virtual Shanghai platform. Here it is now ! Users will now find a “user’s guide” (see the right hand...
One of the challenges the Virtual Shanghai Project has tried to meet is designing a tool tailored for the production of visual narratives. This ambition has been running through the project from the beginning....
There has been little activity recently on this blog due to these many factors that weigh on a scholarly life (classes, reports, dissertations, etc.). Yet we are back again and will resolutely maintain a...
Among the various solicitations the 70th anniversary of the end of W.W.II and victory over Japan is generating in China, the People’s Daily (人民日报) asked Christian Henriot about his views on the contribution of...
Just recently, an unexpected email message led me to discover a new collection of photographs on wartime Shanghai. The William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University has released a very rich series of...
A presentation of the collection of T’ou Sè Wè figurines in Chinese on RFI (Radio France International)
French national TV channel FR3 broadcasted a reportage during its prime time 7:00-8:00 news on the Lyon exhibition of the T’ou Sè Wè figurines. The exhibition takes place at the Musée des Tissus et...
The People’s Daily (人民日报) was present at the opening of the exhibition of the T’ou Sè Wè wood figurines (土山湾孤儿院) at the Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs in Lyon. The People’s Daily...
CCTV (Central China Television), the main state television broadcaster in China, attended the press conference by Maximilien Durand (director of the Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs), Christian Henriot (Institut d’Asie orientale), and...
