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"Beijing: the world's largest marketplace for art? March 11, 2013 By Sebastien Goulard | edit Vases on sale in a department store in Shanghai Vases on sale in a department store in Shanghai China has become the largest art market in the world. This could have important consequences for Chinese cities. The new urban upper class has rediscovered its heritage and has been exploring new artistic trends. Thanks to China's new passion for art, fresh talents have emerged and have been widely recognized. Chinese art lovers are flocking to the main international art market centres, where auction houses cater to the new clientele, offering Chinese language services. Since 2010, China has progressively come to dominate the art market. In 2011, China represented 41.4% of global fine art auction sales revenue, while the USA and the UK lagged far behind, with 23.6% and 19.4%, respectively1. Does this mean that Chinese cities have caught up with - and surpassed - New York and London as the leading auction marketplaces? If we take a closer look at China's art market, we notice, first of all, that this market is concentrated within a few cities. Beijing and Hong Kong represent the lion's share of the market, although Shanghai and some other provincial capitals, such as Hangzhou, are making progress. Nevertheless, Hong Kong is still the main artistic hub. In China, Hong Kong has played a similar role to Monaco vis-à-vis the French market. Because foreign auction houses were not allowed to operate in France until 2000, during the 60's American Sotheby's set up in Monaco, where French customers could easily buy pieces of fine art. Sotheby's and Christie's, the two main rivals, began looking to Asia in the 70's and 80's, opening offices in Hong Kong in 1973 and 1986 respectively. There, these companies could operate in a very business-friendly environment thanks to a reliable legal framework, the absence of taxes and the role of Hong Kong as Asia's main hub. When China s

" Photo by Tong Lam By Tong Lam - April 10, 2013 In spite of being called the "world's manufacturer," China has been moving toward a consumption-led economy in the past two decades. In the aftermath of the Tiananmen uprising in 1989, the government has worked hard to create a consumer society as a way to divert the attention of the expanding middle class from its rising political demands. The emphasis on consumption, particularly household consumption, has taken on new significance in recent years as the government uses domestic demand to counteract the ongoing global financial crisis. Yet the story of consumption in China also involves foreign tourists, transnational corporations, and consumers elsewhere. In effect, China is now a circuit of global consumption. And the various types of consumer products and information that saturate everyday life, as seen in this online photo essay, are some of the evidence. -Tong Lam Tong Lam is a historian of modern China and a visual artist. He teaches at the University of Toronto and is the author of A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949 (California, 2011). Belabored Podcast, Episode 1: "We will shut down your city" · April 12, 2013 · [EVENT] Time for the Neo-Dissidents? · April 8, 2013 · Belabored Podcast to Launch Next Friday Featuring Karen Lewis · April 5, 2013 · Receive news, notes, and invitations. Spring 2013 Article Picture Subscribe Now! "

" Year Of The Snake 2013: Chinese Celebrate Lunar New Year (PHOTOS) (VIDEO) Reuters | By Ben Blanchard Posted: 02/09/2013 1:45 pm EST | Updated: 02/09/2013 2:08 pm EST Share on Google+ Year Of The Snake 1,616 226 137 331 Get Religion Alerts: Sign Up Follow: China, 2013 Year Of Snake, Chinese New Year, Celebrations Of Year Of The Snake, Chinese New Year Customs, What Is Year Of The Snake?, Year Of The Snake, Religion News Chinese welcomed the arrival of the Year of the Snake with raucous celebrations on Saturday, setting off a cacophony of firecrackers in the streets and sending fireworks blazing into the sky to bring good fortune."

"Yesterday marked the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year 2013, the Year of the Snake. One of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, the snake signifies cleverness and tenacity and is associated with the element of fire. In the larger Chinese astrological cycle, this year is also associated with the element of water, which makes 2013 the Year of the Water Snake. The combination of the water and fire elements may signify turmoil in the months ahead. But people around the world ushered in the new year with displays of fireworks, family get-togethers, temple visits, and street festivals. Collected here are images from several countries where revelers have been welcoming the arrival of the Water Snake. [29 photos]"

"Mercredi 27 février 2013 de 13h à 15h L'accès aujourd'hui massif à des vidéos dématérialisées -en ligne ou hors ligne- s'accompagne du développement d'applications utiles à la consultation et à l'annotation. Les outils numériques changent-ils nos manières de fréquenter les images animées ? Ouvrent-ils de nouvelles perspectives en termes d'éducation à l'image ? Transforment-ils le travail d'analyse de films ? Quelle continuité peut-il exister entre pratiques des internautes, pédagogie du cinéma et recherche universitaire ? "

Vidéo New York TImes - Nouvel an chinois 2013

"Women selling local delicacies March 8, 2013 By Miguel Elosua | edit This photo was taken in Jinli ancient street in Chengdu (Sichuan), in 2010. The street was renovated in 2004 and has become since one of the city's most popular spots for both tourists and locals. Located next to the Wuhou Memorial Temple, the pedestrian street abounds with stores selling folk handicrafts, teahouses (even one Starbucks), and stalls with an astonishing variety of local snacks. In this one, cold cakes (混糖凉糕) and bamboo rolls of beef (竹叶牛肉) were made on the spot for 7 and 10 yuan the piece, respectively. This pattern of urban development has been replicated in almost every provincial capital in the last decade with much success. Pedestrians stroll against a backdrop of picturesque façades, getting a taste of the old rural life left behind."

From: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal Volume 6, Number 4, 2013 pp. 569-571 | In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: While the conventional study of modern Chinese history places a big signpost at the divide of 1949, when the Nationalist regime fled to Taiwan and the Communist regime took over the mainland, Jacob Eyferth sets his papermaking story during the latter eight decades of the twentieth century, leading into contemporary China with barely a pause at midcentury. This sort of chronological breakthrough sheds new light on the transition from the traditional division of labor to the maximizing of profits and production of the Maoist years. Despite all the efforts of socialist ideology, the country’s rural-urban gap widened and intensified throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Chinese state capitalists, as Eyferth shows us, were more Chinese than Marxian, determined to increase national production so as to surpass the United Kingdom and the United States within a decade of liberation. As to the historical actors in Jiajiang, Sichuan, where this study is set, Eyferth presents them as a diverse group—or group of groups—whose lives embody the development of one kind of papermaking; he assesses their skills by considering a broad field of relations. Such an approach broadens our view of the sociotechnical network beyond Bruno Latour’s actor network theory (ANT) and confirms that interdisciplinary science and technology studies elicit remarkable insights from historical materials."

" AP PHOTOS: Celebrating Lunar New Year in China, around world"

巷子里的年味 作者： 韩梦博 2013-02-10 13:26:37 来源：infzm.com 除夕夜，两个孩子在爆竹声中捂住了耳朵。虽然现代生活方式的普及让人们感觉年味越来越淡，但过年大团圆的愿望还是在代代相传。 （新华社记者 杨绍功/图） 我的老家在山东一个不起眼的县城中一条不起眼的小巷子里，巷子里只有两户人家，我家门面朝南，隔壁邻居家门面朝东，他们家里只住着一对母子，不管是平日，或是春节，家中均冷冷清清。相比来说，我家在春节的时候则是热闹非凡。 每次春节回家，一进入小巷子口，就能闻到一股浓浓的香气飘来，便知道老爸在家中正围着围裙准备年货。我们家的年货最主要的就是"吃货"，于是每次放假回家，我和老妹的主要任务就是吃，走的时候再大包小包地拎着，不管是以前在外地上学时，还是现在在济南结婚定居，都是这样。 老爸向来以"会做饭"自居，在家人朋友之中也是出了名的会做会吃。每次回家他都会变着花样给我们做各种美食，但唯一不变的是春节的饺子。上学时寒假在家一整个月下来，几乎天天都在吃水饺。白菜猪肉、萝卜羊肉、芹菜牛肉……各种各样。每天一早，我和老妹还在被窝里，爸妈就包好了饺子，他俩一个擀皮，一个包，异常地迅速，不到半小时，水饺就下锅了。不得不提的是老爸包的素水饺，那味道几乎没有人能比得上，白菜豆腐、韭菜鸡蛋，我觉得，能把素馅做得比肉馅还好吃那才是真的本事。 老爸还有一道拿手菜，虽然是一道平常的辣椒炒鸡，但那味道是外面所有的饭店都做不出的，十足的美味下饭菜，鸡肉爽口细腻，就连里面的小青椒也让人垂涎三尺，尤其是炒鸡里面浓郁的汤汁，鲜辣甜咸，浑然一体，融合巧妙，若是浇在米饭上，或是

"Des milliers de Parisiens se sont massés dimanche 10 février sur le parvis de l'Hôtel de ville pour admirer les cortèges du Nouvel an chinois"

"Appel à contributions : « Patrimoine et musées, boussoles des peuples ? : mise en scène des racines et des origines nationales en Extrême-Orient », Ebisu 20 février 2013 Par artsdelacoree Posté dans : Arts de la Corée"

"Depuis le jeudi 07 février 2013, un nouvel atelier est proposé à tous les lecteurs de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, les jeudis après-midi de 14h30 à 16h. Intitulé « Gallica et ressources électroniques », il est destiné à permettre aux usagers de la bibliothèque qui le souhaitent de se familiariser avec les collections numérisées et les ressources électroniques proposées par l'établissement. Outre la prise en main du moteur de recherche Gallica et des fonctionnalités qui en permettent un usage simplifié, le lecteur a aussi la possibilité de découvrir la richesse des collections mises à sa disposition : fonds manuscrit, imprimé mais également sonore ou iconographique. Par ailleurs, un panorama des différentes bases de données pour lesquelles la BnF a souscrit un abonnement est proposé au lecteur. En s'appuyant sur différents exemples (et, dans la mesure du possible, sur ceux proposés par le public), le formateur montre les différentes méthodes de recherche d'articles en ligne et de livres électroniques. Loin de s'apparenter à un cours magistral, ces séances de formation sont conçues comme de véritables travaux pratiques. Les lecteurs inscrits disposent ainsi chacun d'un ordinateur qui leur permet de s'exercer au maniement des outils de recherche documentaire présentés par le formateur au cours de la séance. "

"Pékin sans transition "

"Chinese Family Memories, Recycled"

"Photos: Over 4 tons of garbage fished from Forbidden City moat"