AUTUMN 2025 Editorial

AUTUMN 2025 Editorial

Kei Takahashi, Director of Kami Ya Co., Ltd, specialists in paper, mounting and calligraphy by Yuichi Inoue, and Robin Markbreiter IN MAY 2024, I travelled to Tokyo to meet Kei Takahashi, Director of Kami Ya Co., Ltd, which engages in various businesses related to art...
Reflections on Painted Glass Mirrors

Reflections on Painted Glass Mirrors

JAMES C.S. LINSenior Curator of Chinese Art, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge 1 Chinese Reverse Glass Painter (detail), watercolour, 36.2 x 27.9 cm. Courtesy of A.J. Hardy Collection IN MY RESEARCH on Chinese reverse-painted glass mirrors, I came across an...
SUMMER 2025 Editorial

SUMMER 2025 Editorial

Dr James C.S. Lin and Ms Li Li (previous director of the Thirteen Hongs Museum, Guangzhou) examining export materials for the pilot project at the Fitzwilliam Museum IT IS MY pleasure to present the Summer 2025 issue featuring seven impressive articles on “Chinese...
Artist Phung Pham’s Silent Passionate Journey

Artist Phung Pham’s Silent Passionate Journey

KERRY NGUYEN-LONG 1 Artist Phung Pham, August 2006 DECADES AGO, I came across an intriguing black and white woodblock image in the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum, but it would be many years before I finally met Phung Pham, a quiet, intense man with an overwhelming...