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SUMMARY:Online Talk: Collecting and Displaying China at the National Muse
 um of Scotland
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DESCRIPTION:A new East Asia gallery opened at the National Museum of Scot
 land in February 2019 as the final stage of the Museum’s fifteen-year tr
 ansformation and renovation. The new gallery presents a display of China
 \, Japan and Korea from past to present across four themes. For its Chin
 a part\, it showcases the Museum’s historical collection as well as piec
 es from recent key contemporary acquisitions. This presentation will\, t
 hrough a curatorial lens\, discuss the processes and challenges of prese
 nting China in a permanent gallery in Scotland.\n\nAbout the speaker:\nD
 r Qin Cao is Curator of the Chinese collections\, including those of the
  Himalayan and Mongolian regions\, and the Korean peninsula.\nQin studie
 d Archaeology for her BA at Nanjing University and then her MA at Univer
 sity College London. She obtained a DPhil on the subject of Shang dynast
 y weapons from the University of Oxford in collaboration with the Britis
 h Museum. Dr Cao has interned and worked at a number of heritage institu
 tions\, including the Bangkok office of UNESCO\, Jinsha Site Museum\, Ch
 engdu\, China and the Ashmolean Museum\, Oxford. In 2012\, she joined th
 e British Museum as part of their Future Curators programme\, and also w
 orked at the Manchester Museum. Her primary interest is Chinese material
  culture\, in particular bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties\, and n
 umismatics.\n
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