Digital humanities_China

"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."

"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

"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"

Images commandées ou photos buissonnières, depuis 50 ans Marc Riboud sillonne la planète comme un reporter, un voyageur, un promeneur qui aime prendre son temps. Les amateurs connaissent son goût pour la surprise, sa sympathie pour les êtres. Rétif à la violence, ses photos révèlent le plaisir de l'œil."

"From 1908 to 1932, Sidney Gamble (1890-1968) visited China four times, traveling throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside. A sociologist, renowned China scholar, and avid amateur photographer, Gamble used some of the pictures to illustrate his monographs. The Sidney D. Gamble Photographs digital collection marks the first comprehensive public presentation of this large body of work that includes photographs of Korea, Japan, Hawaii, San Francisco, and Russia. The site currently features photographs dated between 1917 and 1932; the 1908 photographs will be digitized and uploaded as part of future additions to the site."

"Chinese new year celebrations around the world - in pictures Across Asia and in many other parts of the world, dragon and lion dances, fireworks and laughing Buddhas usher in the year of the snake"

" 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."

"Conférence de Katiana Le Mentec intitulée «Un corps de divinité morcelé pour penser l'espace bouleversé. Du récit de légendes à Yunyang après l'avènement du barrage des Trois Gorges ». Katiana Le Mentec, docteur en ethnologie, postdoctorante, chargée de cours - Université Paris Ouest Nanterre"

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"

"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]"

"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. "