TALK POSTPONED: CIT: An Alternative Classification Scheme for the Chinese Visual Culture
This talk has been postponed until further notice
Oxford China Studies Society – Culture and Art Series

This talk will introduce the CIT (Chinese Iconography Thesaurus), the first alternative classification scheme especially designed for the Chinese visual culture, with a complementary image database. Traditionally, iconography has been used to index and access motifs, themes, and subject matters of European artworks. Because of the lack of alternative model, the contents of non-western art objects have long been catalogued according to Eurocentric classifications. The CIT, as an intellectual and practical project, aims to fill this gap
Date: 28 April 2023, 17:00 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2023)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Speaker: Dr Zhang Hongxing (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Organising department: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Organiser contact email address: xuyang.gao@arch.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Not required
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Clare Orchard