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Chinese Map of the World
Exhibition
01/01/2008 - 31/12/2008
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Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow

The Hunterian Museum has a permanent exhibition which includes a rare 15tth Century Chinese map of the world, made for the Chinese Emperor by a Jesuit priest.

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Chinese Art Demonstrations
Art
01/01/2008 - 30/04/2009
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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery , Chamberlain Square, Birmingham , B3 3DH

A programme of 6 demonstrations by Chinese artists, exploring a variety of Chinese art techniques.  These events will provide a unique opportunity for visitors to see real artists at work. 

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Aspects of China: An Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics
Exhibition
07/02/2008 - 31/07/2008
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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery , Chamberlain Square, Birmingham , B3 3DH

Aspects of China will be Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery's first permanent and rotating display of Chinese art, featuring 70 pieces of historic Chinese ceramics from the outstanding Franklin Collection of Chinese Art. 

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Charting China
Universities   
This event also tagged as Exhibition
07/02/2008 - 30/06/2008
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Main Staircase, Main Library, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, WC1E 0AH

This select exhibition of historical items from UCL Library Services Special Collections looks at early printed descriptions of encounters between the West and China.

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Chinese Reflections
Art
07/02/2008 - 31/12/2008
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York Castle Museum , The Eye Of York, York, Y01 9RY

This exhibition focuses on York's Chinoiserie and Chinese ceramics collections.

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Arts London_China Now - Ctrl+P Publication www.ctrlp-artjournal.org
Online
01/03/2008 - 31/07/2008
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Online at www.ctrlp-artjournal.org

A joint publication project produced in collaboration with Chelsea College of Art & Design and Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art.

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Arts London_China Now - Three Degrees of Separation
Art   
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10/03/2008 - 17/05/2008
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Chelsea Future Space, Hepworth Court, Grosvenor Waterside (off Ebury Bridge Road), London, SW1W 8QN

For Voonpow Bartlett, Neil Stewart, and Erica Tan, considering China is not so much a case of CHINA NOW but China everyday, or China always - a slow burning, deeper contemplation.

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China Design Now at Liberty
Exhibition
15/03/2008 - 23/05/2008
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Liberty, Great Marlborough Street , London , W1B 5AH

China Design Now at Liberty - a showcase of contemporary Chinese design throughout the store in collaboration with the V&A's Spring exhibition.

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China Design Now
Art
15/03/2008 - 13/07/2008
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V&A, Room 39, North Court, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL

As part of the China in London festivities, the V&A's spring exhibition, China Design Now, will explore the recent explosion of new design in...

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China at Harewood
Art   
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15/03/2008 - 02/11/2008
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Harewood House, Harewood, Leeds, LS17 9LG

‘China at Harewood’ is a collective name for a wide variety of events, exhibitions and activities throughout the 2008 season at Harewood. The main feature of the year will be the East Bedroom which has been re-hung with a stunning...

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China 08 At The National Railway Museum
Science & Technology
19/03/2008 - 31/10/2008
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National Railway Museum, Leeman Road, York, YO26 4XJ

China was the last country in the world to build steam locomotives for regular service and in the last twenty years it has become an increasingly popular destination for railway enthusiasts.

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The Last Days Of Chinese Steam Exhibition
Science & Technology
19/03/2008 - 31/08/2008
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National Railway Museum, Leeman Road, York, YO26 4XJ

Don't miss this unique exhibition of photographs by renowned railway photographer Michael Rhodes.

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Chinese Festival
Festival
21/03/2008 - 01/12/2008
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National Railway Museum, Leeman Road, York, YO26 4XJ

To mark the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games the National Railway Museum is celebrating its Chinese links with a new exhibition of photographs, a  Chinese festival, Web exhibition and Learning and Community workshops.

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City of Ambition, by Ferit Kuyas
Art
01/04/2008 - 27/09/2008
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Photofusion, 17a Electric Lane, Brixton, London, SW9 8LA

City of Ambition is a visit to one of the largest cities in the world, Chongqing. Largely unknown in the western world, Chongqing was the capital of China in World War II, but was only granted municipal status in 1997. In his large format colour...

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Breathe Artist Residency Mao Yan Yang - part of Asian Art Triennial 2008
Art
01/04/2008 - 30/06/2008
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Chinese Arts Centre, Market Buildings , Thomas Street, Manchester , M4 1EU

As part of the CHINA NOW events Chinese Arts Centre will organise a national campaign in China to select and specially commission an artist to visit the UK and become part of our residential...

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Modern Chinese Art : The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection - A New Generation
Art
01/04/2008 - 24/05/2008
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Asia House Gallery, 63 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7LP

As part of China in London, Asia House presents this exhibition which will be the first showing in London of the unique collection of modern Chinese art formed by the great scholar and connoisseur of Chinese painting in the West,...

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Picturing China 1870-1950: Photographs from British collections
Exhibition
01/04/2008 - 31/07/2008
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Oriental Museum, Durham University, Elvet Hill , Durham DH1 3TH , UK

This exhibition showcases photographs of life in China before 1950 in the possession of families or descendants of Chinese and British men and women who formerly lived there.

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China and the Royal Society
Exhibition   
This event also tagged as Public Education
04/04/2008 - 20/06/2008
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The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London,  SW1Y 5AG

In 1693 Robert Hooke FRS drank tea with visiting Chinese merchants in London, and attempted to learn some words of Chinese (with little success).The Royal Society's interest in China and Chinese science has continued up to the present day. This...

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New Ink Paintings by Chen Shaoxiong & Qiu Anxiong
Exhibition   
This event also tagged as Art
05/04/2008 - 22/06/2008
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Chinese Arts Centre

Market Buildings , Thomas Street, Manchester , M4 1EU

Chinese ink painting is one of the most traditional art forms still widely used in China today. 

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Return of the Grice Ivories
Art
12/04/2008 - 04/10/2008
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Graves Art Gallery, Surrey Street, Sheffield, S1 1XZ

This exhibition will feature the stunning Grice Chinese Ivories collection, which comprises over 150 antique carved pieces dating from the 18th to 20th centuries and is one of the few collections of Eastern art in the North of England.

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