Events

Date: Thursday 19 November 2026, 10.30am – 11.30am Host: Wenyuan Xin, Later China Curator, The British Museum Location: PDC Study Room at The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG Price: £15 (non-refundable) Booking: Tickets will be go on sale from the 12th of October on the Tickets page of the website.  The seventeenth […]

Date: Thursday 19 November 2026, 11.45am – 12.45pm Host: Wenyuan Xin, Later China Curator, British Museum Location: PDC Study Room at The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG Price: £15 (non-refundable) Booking: This event is now fully booked  The seventeenth century was a time of political upheaval in China, marked by the fall […]

Speaker: Regina Krahl The International Exhibition of Chinese Art held at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1935/6 is a story of superlatives, unique and unrepeatable. It was and will remain the largest and most important exhibition of ancient Chinese art ever mounted. It was realized thanks to a small group of visionaries – all […]

Sir Michael Butler Memorial lecture Speaker: Dr. Fang Cai 蔡芳 — Jiangxi Normal University Narrative Porcelain refers to porcelain whose decoration is structured according to narrative logic to represent identifiable stories drawn from literature, history, folklore, drama, and related traditions. My recent publication, Narrative Study on Chinese and Western Ceramic Paintings, analyses 210 narrative subjects drawn from […]