Projects | Events | Exibitions
EXHIBITIONS The Study Center has organized several exhibitions in China and Italy, both for educational purposes with poster and pictures and at renown museums with artifacts and documents. FLORA SINENSIS Plants flowers and animals from China to Europe November - December 2016 A glance on the influences of the Chinese botany and medicine in Europe, plants and flowers from the 16th century to the present days . A new version of the exhibition, with additional sections is ready for the next exibit. More MIDDLE-EARTH - Terre di mezzo Peoples, civilizations, knowledges, East and West into dialogue. December 2014- December 2016 A two years programme of Conferences Exibitions Events to discover horizons once (but no longer) away. TASTE OF TEA, OPIUM PERFUME. CONSUMPTION, TRADE AND CONFLICTS BETWEEN EUROPE AND CHINA FROM THE XX CENTURY XVIII March 2014: Trento Cycle of educational exhibitions focusing on the evolution of political and commercial relations between the British Empire and the Chinese Empire. THE LONG MARCH OF CHINA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY November 2012: Verona April - September 2013: Trento The "Chinese century" from the end of the millennial Empire to the spectacular economic expansion. GENERATION OF GIANTS. JESUIT MISSIONARIES AND SCIENTISTS IN CHINA IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MATTEO RICCI December 2011 - March 2012, Trento and San Michele all'Adige Exhibition on the occasion of the Year of Chinese Culture in Italy. celebrating the 350th anniversary since Martino Martini passed away. THE SILK ROAD / LUCCA-HANGZHOU A LONG JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY Lucca November 2011- April 2012 Exhibition in Lucca in collaboration with the National Silk Museum in Hangzhou, on the occasion of the Year of Chinese Culture in Italy. More FROM SILK TO PORCELAIN. TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF RELATIONS BETWEEN EUROPE AND CHINA November 2010 - December 2011, Bolzano and Trento Cycle of didactic exhibitions on the evolution of relations between East and West, on trade and cultural exchanges between the two continents. THE WAY OF FRIENDSHIP 1 to 31 October 2010 Trieste, center Veritas Exposition on humanistic and scientific works of Martini and the Jesuits in China in the sixteenth century, including the tables of Atlas Sinensis and cartography of Renaissance. THE RIDGES OF HISTORY. FATHER MATTEO RICCI BETWEEN ROME AND BEIJING 29 October 2009 - 24 January 2010, Rome, Vatican City, Braccio di Carlo Magno Section of the exhibition dedicated to Matteo Ricci in the 400th anniversary of his death, with an exhibition of seventeenth-century texts, measuring instruments, panels and paintings. REFLECTIONS OF THE EAST. THE REPRESENTATIONS OF CHINA IN THE EUROPEAN MAPS 18 December 2008 - January 30, 2009, Trento, Buonconsiglio Castle Exhibition of historical, geographical and humanistic facets of China. VISIONS OF CELESTIAL EMPIRE. CHINA'S IMAGE IN WESTERN CARTOGRAPHY November 2007 - October 2008, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Hongkong, P.R. China Four cartographic exhibits on the representations of China produced by Jesuits and European scientists from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. See the exposition Visions of Celestial Empire at the Hong Kong University |