Chinese jades from the Neolithic to the 20th century.
The Society of Friends of the Cernuschi Museum has invited Christophe Comentale, doctor of Chinese art history, honorary chief curator, to give a lecture entitled Les jades chinoises [...]
The main Japanese Buddhist currents
Lecture by Frédéric Girard, emeritus director of studies at the EFEO. Buddhism has become acclimatized in Japan in several forms, popular and scholarly, in symbiosis with [...]
Mother, courtesan, nun, medium or goddess: the feminine in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism
Lecture by Catherine Despeux, sinologist, honorary professor at INALCO. In China, the feminine is expressed according to the cosmological model of yin and yang. These two principles are [...]
The bow and the saber – Imaginary warrior of Japan
Visit-conference by Sylvie Ahmadian, lecturer at MNAA-Guimet. The term samurai is mentioned for the first time in a 10th century text, but is not used in its current sense until [...]
Strongholds of Chosŏn, ancient Korea
Conference by Francis Macouin, retired General Curator of MNAA-Guimet. The history of Chosŏn extends over 500 years (1392-1897) and is marked by a fairly great political stability because [...]
Textiles of Central Asia from the 5th to the 9th Century: Riddles and Hypotheses.
Conference by Gilles Béguin, Honorary General Curator of Heritage, former director of the Cernuschi museum. For about thirty years appearing on the art market [...]
Meeting around the uses of bamboo in Vietnam
Visio conference by Emmanuel Poisson, professor of Vietnamese history at the University of Paris and deputy director of the French Institute for Research on East Asia (IFRAE). Bamboo, [...]
Ultimate fight. Asian martial arts
Friday, December 10, 2021:, guided tour by Julien Rousseau, curator of the exhibition at the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac museum. The exhibition dates back to the origins of martial arts [...]
Painting out of the world, monks and scholars of the Ming and Qing dynasties - Chih Lo Lou collection
Visit-conference of the exhibition by Mael Bellec, chief curator at the Cernuschi museum. This exceptional exhibition presents a set of more than one hundred masterpieces of painting [...]
Chinese painting, the dream and the night
Conference by Yolaine Escande, research director at CNRS. The picto-phonogram for the night, 夜 ye, consists of “the moon”, 月 xi, and a phonetic element. The moon defines the night as the [...]
