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Francesca Leiper

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Nanjing Mapped Out; From City Walls to Psychedelic Spectrograms

Francesca Leiper -
It’s 22 February, 2020, and Xuanwu Lake has just reopened to the public after a long spell of closure in attempts to control the spread of the novel coronavirus. I open up Baidu Maps to suss out the best...
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Chinese Food Rocks; Art as Food, Food as Art

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The inspiration for this month’s column was served up to me on a plate; eight slabs of polished black and white marble. Except the edible kind of marble, the kind made from taro; slightly sweet with a gentle wobble...
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Watercolour Works for Wintery Weekends

Francesca Leiper -
As the thermals come out and the season of sleeping bag jackets sets in, it calls for indoor activities. A small but highly accessible exhibition at the Nanjing Museum should fit the bill nicely. “Lofty Sublimity” (don’t judge by...
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Going with the Float

Francesca Leiper -
Twenty days was all they had between receiving the order and presenting an initial proposal. That’s not all that long when you’ve just been asked to design the Jiangsu float that will be a part of the Tiananmen parade...
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A Royal Success; The Largest Exhibition of Chinese Art Ever

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The largest exhibition of Chinese art of all time was not, as one might expect, held in China. Nor was it a recent affair. Beginning on 28 November, 1935, the Royal Academy in London held a monumental exhibition displaying over...
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China Design Icons 101; A Lowdown on Chinese Logos

Francesca Leiper -
Good logos are eye-catching and memorable. Really good logos are eye-catching, memorable and clever. In a country where the symbols of language are much like logos themselves, pictorial signifiers of meaning, we can expect some pretty top-notch stuff. But...
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Introducing Selfie Shangri-la; The Museum of Me

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While museums around the world are banning the use of selfie sticks, a new kind of exhibition space is making them practically a necessity. I’m talking about the so called “selfie museum”. Why not “dive into our world of wonder”...
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When Art History Goes into the Washing Machine

Francesca Leiper -
In 1987, Huang Yongping plonked one copy of “The History of Chinese Painting” and one of “The History of Modern Western Art” into the washing machine for 2 minutes. The result: a pile of papery mush on top of...
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About Me

Francesca Leiper, from Scotland, was a columnist at the Nanjinger. She studied art history at Nanjing University of the Arts and is fascinated by Nanjing’s Republican-era architecture. Francesca Leiper来自苏格兰，目前是南京人杂志的专栏作家。她就读于南京艺术学院艺术史专业，对南京民国时期的建筑非常着迷。
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