Artists, professionals, and magnate assembled on the Palais Brongniart, on the banks of the Seine, for the Paris Forum on April 18 to check out cultural exchanges and shared advancement chances in between China and France. The online forum becomes part of the inaugural season of Shanghai’s five-year”Our Waterproject.
Under the style of “Our Water, To a Boundless Future,” the occasion included keynote speeches and roundtable conversations on such locations as the liberal arts, arts, financing, and trade, all versus the background of the humanistic connection in between Shanghai’s Suzhou Creek and the Seine in Paris.
Chen Jialing, a well-known ink artist and teacher at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, participated in an appealing talk with Eric Lefebvre, director of the Musée Cernuschi, about his sources of motivation and making use of water as a style in his current exhibit at the Réfectoire des Cordelier in Paris.
The very first roundtable, which fixated “Rivers, the Source of Inspiration for Cities,” saw Yuan Xiaoyi, director of East China Normal University’s Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, speak on the significance of streaming rivers in literary images, while Liu Shilin, director of the Institute of Urban Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, used insights on the cultural and environmental changes that have actually occurred in Shanghai and Paris along their particular waterways.
Myriam Krygerprevious cultural attaché at the French Consulate General in Shanghai and the manager of this year’s “Our Water,” likewise shared her memories of China’s eastern metropolitan area, followed by Andre Cointreau, president and CEO of Le Cordon Bleu, a worldwide network of cooking schools, who offered online forum participants a real taste of the city through its food.
The 2nd roundtable, themed “Dialogue Between Two Rivers– Innovation Without Boundaries,” combined agents from Chinese and French business and waterside advancement companies to go over global financial and trade cooperation. Conversations concentrated on subjects consisting of ingenious chances for the French hotel market in the Chinese market, exporting China’s conventional silk workmanship, and how the art trade can promote cultural exchanges.
Talk likewise turned to the Suhewan Functional Zone in Shanghai’s Jing’an District and La Défense enterprise zone in Paris, with both viewed as essential bases for metropolitan renewal, low-carbon sustainable advancement, and commercial development.
Our Water: Flowing from Shanghai– Intercultural Dialogues Among World Cities, a global platform to promote metropolitan cultural exchanges and cooperation, opened in Paris on April 5. Occasions consist of “Merveilleux Jardins de Jiangnan,” an exhibit of China’s Jiangnan garden architecture and aesthetic appeals, the art program “Chen Jialing: Une Vie au Bord du Fleuve” (A Life By the River), and “A Bite of Shanghai,” which takes a look at the history of Shanghai’s standard food. A series of comparable activities concentrating on French culture were kept in Shanghai late in 2015.
In addition to the upcoming Paris Olympics, 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of the facility of diplomatic relations in between China and France.
A variation of this post initially appeared in The PaperIt has actually been equated and modified for brevity and clearness, and is republished here with authorization.
Translator: Eunice Ouyang; editors: Xue Ni and Hao Qibao.
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