Ming: 50 Years That Changed China | Ming Dynasty Exhibition

Our latest film demonstrates how AHRC-funded research has underpinned a major exhibition exploring a golden age in China’s history.
The Exhibition explores the years 1400 - 1450, a pivotal 50 year period that transformed China during the rule of the Ming dynasty.
In this film we hear from the exhibition’s co-curators Jessica Harrison-Hall, British Museum and Professor Craig Clunas, University of Oxford who lead through the exhibition room at a time demonstrating some the finest and most historically important objects ever made in China.
The exhibition features a range of these spectacular objects - including exquisite porcelain, gold, jewellery, furniture, paintings, sculptures and textiles. Many of the objects have only very recently been discovered and have never before been seen outside China.
The carefully selected objects in this exhibition shed new light on this important part of world history that is little known in Europe. China’s internal transformation and connections with the rest of the world led to a flourishing of creativity from what was, at the time, the only global superpower.
The film is chance to see how AHRC funded research has shaped and informed the exhibition from the outset and how the funding has facilitated international exchange and partnership working with 21 international lenders including 10 Chinese institutions.
The following institutions all loaned objectrs or material to the exhibition:
首都博物馆 Capital Museum
湖北省博物馆 Hubei Provincial Museum
南京市博物馆 Nanjing Municipal Museum
南京博物院 Nanjing Museum
中国国家博物馆 National Museum of China
故宫博物院 The Palace Museum
山东博物馆 Shandong Museum
上海博物馆 Shanghai Museum
山西博物院 Shanxi Museum
四川博物院 Sichuan Museum
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Board of Trustees of the Royal Armouries
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Muban Foundation
Musée Cernuschi, Musée des Arts de l’Asie de la ville de Paris
Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art
National Folk Museum of Korea 국립민속박물관
National Museum of Korea 국립중앙박물관
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Private Collection
Royal Artillery Historical Trust
Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst
The British Library
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Victoria and Albert Museum
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[@carmencolon8012]

Recently I havd found out while working on my family tree in family search that I am a Ming descendant via a midddleage royal line. The search too me back from Spai to Portugal, Italy, and Armenia in that order. There I came upon a Princess, a descendant from a Ming ruler.

[@legpol]

I believe the Ming dynasty has left a treasure buried under the Yangtze River close to Nanjing, China. You see, the Chinese were telling us that hundreds of ships were burned there after Zheng He completed his 7th voyage. Wood would have been reduced to ashes but not irons such as the anchors, cannons, nails, iron binders, etc. by the tens of thousands. If we use any modern instrument to find them, we should easily get a lot. On the other hand, if we get nothing, we will have proved that the Zheng He's fleet is a hoax.

[@sookiatkho6821]

Amazing and awesome

[@jacintochua6885]

Int the e00s, during the Tang dynasty, many regions do existed.

[@DarthFifi]

awesome!

[@kiater6759]

Admiral zheng he's voyages would be within these period.

[@legpol]

Kiat Er : Zheng He's voyages might be a novel, not history. Zheng was given a huge fleet of 317 huge ships. They were built within 3 years of time, which averaged 1 ship every 3 days. How could ancient Chinese build ships this fast? And at the end of his voyages, all the ships were made to vanish suddenly by cremation in the Yangtze River. How could this be not a novel? And the title "Admiral" was given to Zheng by modern man, not given to him by the Ming dynasty. This also means novel.

[@guychase8611]

The blue & white porcelain cup looks like Medici “porcelain” ?

[@dandrespruill1165]

Can you explain why the word dynasty is used for chinese people? reply

[@JustinWeisser]

Anyone here from LUCY???

[@kungshih3881]

公石

[@bnkundwa]

Ming in Swahili means many or much. There is a belief the Ming had African origines.

[@Fahad-xe2zv]

But in Chinese, it means Bright or Brilliant

[@YushangChen]

Everyone has African origines