Dear colleagues,
The ‘Global Diasporic Chinese Museums Network Initiative Public Talk Series’ will host the 12th and the final talk on Tuesday 26 November 2024. Our speaker is Mr. Gao Donghui, Director of the Jiangmen Museum, Guangdong, China. He will give a talk on The Distinctive Development Path of Regional Overseas Chinese Museums: A Case Study of the Jiangmen Museum 区域华侨博物馆的特色发展路径：以江门市博物馆为例
Date: Tuesday 26 November 2024
Time: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (GMT)
Venue: Online via Zoom
The event is free to attend and open to all.
Zoom ID: 896 9673 2914
Password: 12345
Zoom meeting link:
https://ntu-sg.zoom.us/j/89696732914?pwd=dn5XUF8tXT3HUckilc6P2KYrPFQQLi.1
The talk will be given in Mandarin Chinese. Simultaneous translation into English will be provided.
Chair: Yow Cheun Hoe, Director of the Chinese Heritage Centre, Singapore
Speaker: Gao Donghui, Director of Jiangmen Museum, China
Abstract
The Jiangmen Museum is an important platform to represent the history and culture of Jiangmen’s overseas Chinese communities. Planning for an Overseas Chinese Museum began in 2002, leading to the opening of the ‘Jiangmen Wuyi Overseas Chinese Museum” in 2010. In 2023, the upgraded museum was reponed to the public under the name of “China Qiaodu Museum for Overseas Chinese”. The museum’s collection includes over 43,000 artifacts, featuring items such as qiaopi (remittance letters), passports, and deposition papers. This talk includes five sections: (1) the origins, context, and development of the museum; (2) The museum’s collection system and special artefacts as a local museum situated in China’s qiaoxiang (the hometown of overseas Chinese); (3) an introduction to the new exhibition Roots in the Hometown, which highlights Jiangmen’s “Qiao Culture” while situating the contributions of overseas Chinese within a global context; (4) the use of digital technology in education and community engagement to amplify the museum’s influences; and (5) challenges, opportunities and plans for future development. The Jiangmen Museum’s experiences show the necessity to explore a distinctive path for the sustainable development of regional museums specializing in the history of overseas Chinese.
The event is jointly hosted by HOMELandS (Hub On Migration, Exile, Languages and Spaces) at the University of Westminster and the Chinese Heritage Centre of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. It is organised as part of the ‘Global Diasporic Chinese Museums Network Initiative’ project funded by AHRC.
It would be appreciated if you could share this event with your colleagues and your networks.
Cangbai Wang (he/him)
Professor of Migration, Heritage and Language
University of Westminster