He Xiangning Art Museum
Art museum honoring a revolutionary painter and feminist, with contemporary Chinese and traditional works on three floors.
This guide to the He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen follows the woman it is named for from her birth in Hong Kong in 1878, through selling her jewelry to send her husband Liao Zhongkai to study in Japan, and their years in Tokyo's revolutionary underground alongside Sun Yat-sen. It moves through her organizing the first International Women's Day rally in China in 1924 and her paintings of tigers, lions and plum blossoms, arriving at the ordinary afternoon of August 20, 1925, when Liao Zhongkai stepped from his limousine in Guangzhou for a party meeting. The museum, opened in 1997 as China's first national art museum named after a single person, still carries her shadow through every exhibition on its three floors.
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