The Forbidden City at War: Telling the Story of the Imperial Collections’ Journey Through China’s WWII
Key information
- Date
- Time
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12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
- Venue
- Online via Zoom
- Event type
- Webinar
About this event
Speaker: Adam Brookes
In the early 1930s, as the Japanese military encroached on Chinese territory, curators at the Forbidden City crated up enormous numbers of art objects and texts for evacuation to safety. For sixteen years, the curators shepherded the finest works of the imperial collections, packed in twenty thousand wooden cases, many thousands of miles through war-torn China to protect them from air raid and plunder. Adam Brookes will discuss researching and writing his new book Fragile Cargo: China’s Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City, and the challenges of uncovering stories from China’s Second World War.
Registration
To register, email ‘yes’ to EARS.SOAS@gmail.com. A zoom link will be sent to all who register before the event.
