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A museum designed to help Chinese people learn about all things African has opened up in Shanghai, says Xinhua:
The Museum for An Experience of African Lifestyle, which is now in open to the public, is Located on Xianggang Road near the Bund.Meanwhile, the SAS SPIOENKOP, a warship from the South African Navy, is set to arrive in Shanghai this Thursday. The visit is part of a year-long celebration commemorating 10 years of diplomatic ties between China and South Africa.An opening ceremony will be held in November, according to Cheng Hui, chairman of the board of Into Africa Cultural Development Co. and also one of the museum's investors. He was unable to provide an exact date.
"African art is quite different to our taste, it takes time for ordinary people to accept it," said Cheng.
Refurbished from an old warehouse, the museum has 400 square meters of floor space and a budget of one million yuan (146,495 U.S. dollars). It houses artwork from more than 20 African nations, including wood and stone carvings, an Egyptian water pipe and tea from South Africa
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While I welcome any effort to help Chinese people learn about the rest of the world, I do wonder about the effectiveness of a museum that covers art from 20 African countries in 400 square meters on an (annual?) budget of 1 million RMB. You would really need a multimillion USD museum housed on several floors run by world-class curators to do the continent justice. And then you would need plenty of advertising to build interest in the museum's collections.
Imagine putting "Asian art" in a museum of similar size with similar funding in a foreign country where knowledge and interest in Asia is low.
Still, opening the museum is a nice sentiment.
Every day is African Appreciation Day here in southern China.
They are so friendly and kind, always offering their drugs to passersby and showing their warmth by grinding alongside girls in crowded, sweaty dance clubs even if the girls specifically ask them not to.
They are misunderstood, revolutionary, third world compatriots that we Chinese need to nurture, though without interfering in their internal affairs.
@LoveChinaLongTime:
nicely said...but pretty sure grinding on girls in clubs is an African American thing only...
What a waste of tax payers money. That money could have use to help the dirt poor peasants in rural areas of China.
"but pretty sure grinding on girls in clubs is an African American thing only..."
While I find LCLT's comment to be a bit broad, there is an element of truth to the grinding on girls in bars comment. When I was in Shenzhen, the Africans had reputations for doing that precisely. Many many many times I saw groups of them corner or surround women and commence the grinding.
I actually saved one Chinese woman once from excessive grinding and was promptly told by one of the Africans that I should not move in on his territory, as if she were something to be owned. I was not interested in her actually. I just felt bad for her, and I could tell she was grateful that she had been liberated from the grinding.