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Blackbow Exhibit: Inside film
This digital exhibit (film) builds on knowledge about the Imperial clock collection and cultivates interpretation techniques for cultural heritage in different contexts. It was created as part of the Zimingzhong exhibition. This film captures the inside of the exhibit. -
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Blackbow Exhibit: Left screen
This digital exhibit (film) builds on knowledge about the Imperial clock collection and cultivates interpretation techniques for cultural heritage in different contexts. It was created as part of the Zimingzhong exhibition. This film captures the left screen of the exhibit. -
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Blackbow Exhibit: Right screen
This digital exhibit (film) builds on knowledge about the Imperial clock collection and cultivates interpretation techniques for cultural heritage in different contexts. It was created as part of the Zimingzhong exhibition. This film captures the right screen of the exhibit.Science Museum Group
digital experience, cultural heritage, digital resource, economic exchange, China, scientific heritage, clock, interpretation, mechanism, exhibition, and audience engagement
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Journal article
Introduction: Creativity and Imagination through Time, Culture and Identity
Highlighting the Time, Culture and Identity cross-disciplinary project conducted between the Science Museum in London, the Palace Museum in Beijing, academics at Beijing Jiaotong University and the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, and creative industries practitioners in China and the UK, this introduction highlights the key impacts of...Blyth, Tilly ; Yan'an, YAO
China, journal article, digital experience, museum, automatons, clock, creative industries, Britain, and eighteenth century
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Transfer of European Clock-Making Technology into China during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
From the 1580s onwards, Catholic missionaries introduced European mechanical clocks into China as gifts for officials or emperors, with the aim of establishing a good relationship with the Chinese leadership in order to do missionary work. After the seventeenth century, European clock-makers in the imperial palace made complicated clocks according...Baichun, Zhang
seventeenth century, China, technology transfer, journal article, Guangzhou, imperial palace, clock, Suzhou, Nanjing, and clockwork
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British Clocks in Eighteenth-Century China: Presents, Tribute, or Trade?
It is commonly believed that most European clocks that reached China before the nineteenth century were sent to the emperor as diplomatic presents from European rulers, or were given to Chinese officials by European merchants in attempts to improve trading conditions. Although such presents had been given in earlier times,...Smith, Roger
China, journal article, eighteenth century, emperor qianlong, trade, Macartney embassy , clock, Britain, and Beijing
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A Conservator’s Perspective on the Approach to Historical Clocks
This paper investigates a conservator’s approach to a particular subset of physical cultural property: clocks. It looks at established conservation frameworks and practical elements of codes of practice, and considers how the conservator’s perspective will differ from that of a peer engaged solely with an approach to static objects. The...Read, Matthew
conservation, conservator, journal article, clock, automatons, mechanism, multimedia, and China
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On the Motions of Four Pagoda Clocks in the Forbidden City
Ancient mechanical clocks and automatons are solid evidence regarding the evolution of technological development. At least four ingenious eighteenth-century clocks with pagoda automatons are preserved in the Palace Museum in Beijing. Two were made in China, the other two in Britain. Although the internal mechanical components were maintained and recorded...Yezhuo, LI ; Yu-Hsun, Chen ; Hong-Sen, YAN
pagoda clock, forbidden city, China, journal article, The Palace Museum, machines, Beijing, automatons, eighteenth century , and mechanism
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Research report
UK-China Collaboration in the Creative Industries: Reflection and Lessons Learned
This report details the set of reflections and lessons learned for collaborative work in the museums and digital heritage sectors in the UK and China.Science Museum Group
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