Tag: Taiwan
Sydney Morning Herald Column
Heaven and Earth in Chinese Art
Friday, February 22nd, 2019 Sydney Morning Herald Column,Instead of asking: “How are you?”, the Chinese might greet you with words: “Have you eaten?” If ever one required confirmation of the Chinese love of food please note that the most famous and popular works in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, are two miraculous carvings: one of a cabbage, the other a piece of […]
Sydney Morning Herald Column
Taipei Dangdai Art Fair 2019
Thursday, January 24th, 2019 Sydney Morning Herald Column,Taiwan is only 180 kilometres from the coast of China but it displays an utterly different cast of mind. So when President Xi Jinping unleashed another round of sabre rattling rhetoric this month, declaring that Taiwan “must and will be” reunited with the mainland, one thinks instinctively of what might be lost rather than gained. […]