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Tamkang University Maritime Museum |
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The Tamkang University Maritime Museum is located in the beautiful campus of Tamkang University and is housed in a building fashioned like a ship. Previously the Maritime Museum was named the “Merchant Ship Hall”; Mr. Y.F. Chang, President of the Evergreen Group, donated money for its construction. It was the cradle of Tamkang University's efforts to educate maritime and turbine specialists. In 1985, the Ministry of Education decided to suspend future recruitment of students, after the last class of students graduated in 1989, and after undergoing renovation, the Maritime Museum, the first of its kind in Taiwan, was established in 1990. .....
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Compassion and Wisdom- Religious Sculptural Arts |
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Tags: art | Buddhism | sculpture
Buddhist sculptures arose out of the belief system that produced them. They are derived from the iconography in Buddhist sutras. Buttressed by the popular religious concepts of the time, they aptly convey the spiritual content in which the religion is rooted. Believers thought that the production of these sculptures would bring about good fortune; practitioners meditated with these images in order to bring about a deeper understanding and wisdom. Religious sermons made use of such profound sculptures to align and intensify the believers' conception of the Buddhist realm. ...
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Enduring Splendor- A Special Exhibition of Mr. Peng Kau-dong’s Bequest |
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Tags: art | Buddhism | exhibition | Peng Kai-dong
Born in Hsin-chu, Taiwan, in 1912, he played snooker actively in his early years before moving to Japan to make a living at the age of 15. He then traveled between Taiwan and Japan frequently before he eventually settled down in Japan. Although he did not have a distinguished education, his tenacity, determination to succeed, original vision, and excellent social networking made him one of the most successful businessmen in Japan. Eventually amassing a vast business syndicate, it covered a wide range of industries such as retailing, jewellery, restaurants, galleries and property management. ...
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Chen Chi-kwan, The Mind’s Eye- Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of His Birth |
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Tags: architecture | art | Chen Chi-kwan | painting
Chen Chi-kwan was born in 1921 in Beijing (known as Beiping at the time). As a child, his father invited a tutor to instruct him and his sister in the Four Books and Five Classics. He also did calligraphy as he learned seal, clerical, regular, running, and cursive scripts to further strengthen his foundation in traditional studies. The War of Resistance against the Japanese erupted when he was a youth, and his whole family ended up moving from place to place, finally settling along with the seat of government in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, where he studied architecture at Central University. ...
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Weaving a Tapestry of Splendors- Bird and Flower Tapestry of the Sung Dynasty |
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Tags: art | National Palace Museum | silk tapestry
Silk tapestry is a form of textile art having a long history in China and employing specialized techniques. Unlike other weaving methods in which the vertical (warp) and horizontal (weft) threads extend back and forth completely across the loom, tapestry in China is done on a simple plain-weave loom using a technique in which the warp threads fully extend but the weft ones do not. In fact, the Chinese term for tapestry, k'o, is defined as chih-wei (or "weaving weft") in the ancient dictionary Yü-p'ien (Jade Chapters; written in 543 AD) by Ku Yeh-wang of the Liang dynasty. ...
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A Slice of Wonder
