TEACH CHINA
Resources for students and educators
TEACH CHINA
Resources for students and educators
Shanghai Jazz vocalist Coco Zhao performs an intimate set of original works and Shanghai jazz favorites in conjunction with special exhibition Shanghai. Zhao’s distinctive style transcends cultures.
Asian Art Museum’s resident artist Ming Ren Discusses his experience during the Cultural Revolution in China.
Former propaganda poster artist, Ming Ren, explains some of the characteristics of Chinese propaganda posters. The poster’s slogan says Down with Capitalists.
Learn about the legendary eccentric scholar Ruan Xiu who lived in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries. Like many anti-authoritarian figures in Chinese history, Ruan would go off by himself into the mountains for long periods of time taking with him just his wine pot and his staff from which dangled some strings of coins.
Xu Bing is renowned for his artistic explorations of the role of language in human life. He was eleven years old when Mao launched the Cultural Revolution. Throughout most of his childhood he witnessed firsthand the written word’s power to manipulate masses.
Asian Art Museum’s resident artist Ming Ren discusses his experience during the Cultural Revolution in China.
Lee Mingwei, the artist behind The Moving Garden on view in the Flower Power exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, tells the stories behind six of his artworks, discussing the concepts, development, and execution.
Conversation between Fang Lu and Herb Tam, curator and director of exhibitions at the Museum of Chinese in America.
Renowned installation artist Liu Jianhua has created a thought-provoking new artwork that blends the classic and contemporary: Porcelain letters and fragments of Chinese characters, suspended in midair, invite you to hunt for meaning.
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Major support for the Asian Art Museum’s school programs and resources is provided by the Dhanam Foundation, United Airlines, The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, and Daphne and Stuart Wells. Additional support is provided by Ms. Jane B. Dalisay and Mr. John W. Kirkman and an anonymous donor. Teacher professional development programs are supported by Wells Fargo.
General support for education is provided by the Dhanam Foundation, the Koret Foundation, the John & Marcia Goldman Foundation, The Charles D. and Frances K. Field Fund, Dodge & Cox, and The Joseph & Mercedes McMicking Foundation. Support is also provided by an endowment established by The Hearst Foundations.
Teach China was created in collaboration with the following arts organizations:
