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The case for eliminating Confucius from China's Confucius Institutes
Edit South China Morning Post 01 Jun 2014
For all the controversy surrounding the opening of hundreds of Confucius Institutes across the world in the last decade, one crucial factor has been overlooked. Confucius himself. The institutes, funded partially by the Chinese government through its Hanban organisation, have been accused of operating as propaganda outfits ... Or artists like the wonderful Han Gan, whose portraits of horses are still so moving after more than 1,000 years....
Sunday’s performance by Empire Brass will feature composition by Professor Zhou Tian (Colgate University)
Edit noodls 04 Apr 2014
(Source. Colgate University). Han Gan's Night-Shining White painting depicts a Chinese legend that inspired Professor Zhou Tian's latest composition. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source. Art Resource, NY ... The emperor commissioned renowned Tang painter Han Gan to create a portrait of the horse, which now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is considered one of the greatest works of the dynasty ... (noodl....
HERITAGE: Poetry in motion
Edit New Straits/Business Times 02 Feb 2014
... to China in the 2nd Century BC, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty ... The horse became one of the favourite subjects of great Tang Dynasty painters including Han Gan, whose Night-Shining White (a portrait of Emperor Xuanzong’s favourite stallion) is one of the most iconic paintings in Chinese art ... Han Gan — Night-Shining White....
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