Life in China During Times of the Late Ming Dynasty
Dec 12 - Mar 11 2018
Pl. Powstańców Warszawy 5
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If you can't go to China, China will come to you. This exhibition features over 100 top-class works brought over to Poland for the first time from the Capital Museum of China—which just so happens to be one of the biggest museums and cultural institutions in Beijing. Through paintings, sacral sculptures, jade objects, and porcelain artefacts, this exhibition provides a look at the life and times of the late Ming Dynasty, an era which is also considered the Chinese Renaissance. As we can imagine, the 16th century was not influenced by the uniting powers of globalization as we have come to accept as mere afterthoughts today—as such, the collective narratives of various nations often took differing directions. While art and science accompanied by economic growth and commercial revival were in full bloom in Europe, the economic and cultural landscapes were also developing in East Asia, but the ways in which they did looked completely different. Divided into three parts, this exhibit explores the cultural, religious and economic forces that drove these successive changes through everyday conditions of life in China.