Scarlett Zuo speaks with Maxwell Hearn of the the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art holds one of the largest collection of Asian art in the Western world, with over 35,000 objects that date back to the third millennium BC. But just forty years ago, the Met barely had an Asian art presence. “In 1971, the only Chinese art on view … Continue reading A Day at the Met

洪波涌起 After visiting burgeoning metropolises – Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Nanjing – China appears before the Western eye as an awe-strikingly monolithic human machine. It seems bound by its universal yet ferociously competitive quest for some shared imagination of a long withheld “modernity.” As it surges toward this unquestioned end in apparent lockstep, all kinds of Chinese find themselves swept up in the fervor. Generality becomes … Continue reading 山高皇帝远 – XINJIANG