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The long-awaited comprehensive book on the history of Korean ceramics! This beautiful, richly-illustrated by Beth McKillop and Jane Portal has just been published by Reaktion Books. In the words of Edmund de Waal, "This is the book on Korean ceramics we have been waiting for. It is engaging and it is magisterial. And I love it."
This year's William Willetts Lecture will be held on Friday, 14 March [...]
The 11 November 2024 issue of The New Yorker magazine features an arti [...]
The ceramic centre Yixing, famous for centuries for its highly-admired teapots, has opened a new ceramics museum on a former state-owned factory. Designed by the Japanese firm of Kengo Kuma and Associates, the new museum has been built in the form of a sleeping dragon. For more information....
In a remarkable discovery, researchers might have found the vessel th [...]
Kindred Spirits: 100 Japanese Ceramics in Chinese Style (the Shen Zhai Collection) is a lush new volume edited by Clare Pollard that features third-generation collector-dealer and SEACS member Patrick K M Kwok's latest passion: Chinese-inspired Japanese ceramics. Together with Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art of the Ashmolean Museum, and Rose Kerr, Fukunaga Ai, and Maezaki Shinya, they have produced an elegant collectors' tome with magnificent large photographs and texts that highlight each piece's features and history. For additional information including a link to the publisher's website to order a copy continue reading.
Each year, SEACS arranges a field trip to a destination of interest ranging from far-away sites such as Jingdezhen or Changsha to sites nearer home. This year we opted for Penang and Kedah, the locale of two previous field trips, to hear and see what new discoveries had been made, with a highlight stop at the archaeology laboratory at the Universiti Sains Malaysia....
Mr. Kwa Chong Guan has been an active contributor to the heritage sec [...]
A number of Singapore’s prize Tang Shipwreck artefacts including the [...]
Visitors to Hong Kong may want to visit an exhibition featuring over [...]
We are delighted to announce that SEACS Lifetime member Mr. Low Sze W [...]
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Law School has just announced its Greater China Legal History Seminar Series for 2024-25. These talks are on ZOOM, free, in English, and open to the public. We think SEACS members may be interested in an upcoming talk (13 October, 12:30-2:00 pm HK time) on "The Gates of Kam Tin: An Early Case of Repatriation of Looted Cultural Property". For more information....
