Arts & Illustrations
Exhibition of Images of Hakka Females (3 of 8): Zhang Choumei (張綢妹)-Shell Painter

72-year-old Zhang Choumei, mother of Hakka singer Chen Yongtao, had settled in Sanzhi, Taipei County over ten years ago. Her husband and son often went fishing by the seaside. Having nothing to do, she started to pick seashells. “My family said I was strange. There were so many stones and I had to pick seashells. ......

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Exhibition of Images of Hakka Females (2 of 8): Chen-Li Jumei (陳李菊梅)-Potter

2001: Miaoli County Potters’ Joint Exhibition
2002: Miaoli Cup Pottery Hand-turning Invitation Contest
2002: Hsinchu Shinkong Mitsukoshi Ceramics Expo Potters’ Joint Exhibition
2003: Council for Hakka Affairs 2003 Hakka Mimosa Festival Activity Series, co-sponsored by Mingde Kiln......

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Exhibition of Images of Hakka Females (1 of 8): Zeng Shuzhu (曾淑珠)-Passions in Carvings Speaking Inner Feelings

No one would believe the pretty and always-smiling lady is already the grandmother to five children. Born in 1954, Zeng Shuzhu should be enjoying a peaceful life and playing with her grandchildren now and then. Yet just two years ago she chose to end her thirty-two-year marriage and start anew with carving knives to chisel out a new life. ......

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Li Mei-shu, the “Great Wall” of Taiwanese Art Movement

Born in 1902 in Sanhsia, Taiwan, Li Mei-shu developed interest in drawing since early childhood. He left for Japan in 1928 to pursue his dream of becoming a painter. In March 1929 he was admitted to Tokyo School of Fine Arts where he concentrated on the study of such different schools as Classicism, Romanticism and Realism. Shortly after his graduation from the art school in 1934, Li returned to his hometown, Sanhsia, to which he had a profound commitment. As a painter, Li used his paintbrushes to fulfill this commitment, manifesting his love of the people and nature on many a canvas. .....

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Rubbings

The Institute has approximately 40,000 rubbings of more than 28,000 bronze and stone items. Except for a few donations, most of these were purchased in the early 1920s. Among the Institute’s collection, many rubbings are not recorded in other sources; some of them were made at an early date or are of exceptional quality. Four themes are exhibited: “Full-surface Rubbings of Bronze Artifacts”chosen because of the fine technique of the rubbing, or because the typology of the original bronzes is not recorded in catalogues, or because of earlier scholars' writings on.....

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Eastern Chou (771 – 221 BC)

The objects in this collection are excavated around the 1930s, from tomb M60 in the Liu-li-ko cemetery, Hui-hsien, Honan and tomb M1 in Shan-piao-chen, Chi-hsien. Both tombs belong to the Eastern Chou period.
Tomb M60 in the Liu-li-ko cemetery measures 5.8 m east-west by 4.7 north-south. Located at the center of cemetery, it certainly is a tomb of the ruling class with abundant accompanying burial artifacts. This tomb is dated to the Middle Spring and Autumn period (mid seventh—mid sixth century B.C.) or slightly earlier.Tomb M1 in Shan-piao-chen is the largest tomb in.....

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