New China Eye Witness: Roger Duff, Rewi Alley And The Art Of Museum Diplomacy by James Beattie and Richard Bullen

`New China Eyewitness' is the fascinating account of the 1956 visit to the People's Republic of China by a group of prominent New Zealanders - including Roger Duff, James Bertram, Evelyn Page, Angus Ross and Ormond Wilson - and of how Canterbury Museum came to acquire the largest collection of Chinese art in New Zealand. At the centre of the book is the eloquent diary kept by Canterbury Museum director Dr Roger Duff, detailing his efforts to bring to Christchurch the collection of antiquities gifted to the museum by long-time China resident, New Zealander Rewi Alley. Through Alley's contacts with premier Zhou Enlai and Duff's diplomatic skills they obtained the sanction of the Chinese government to circumvent its own export ban on antiquities and permit the gifting of seven crates of treasures to Christchurch.

Publisher:	Canterbury University Press
Year:	2017
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9781927145944
Condition:	Very Good
Description:	DJ. James Beattie signature on title page, dated 2017.

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SKU: 1597181
Location: NZ NF