The Museum of East Asian Art
Georgian town house displaying jades, ceramics and bamboo carvings from China, Japan and Korea.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath follows Brian McElney, a Hong Kong lawyer who hunted antiques among the junk shops of Hollywood Road and Cat Street, starting with one small ivory carving in nineteen fifty-eight. It touches the uneasy Hong Kong of the Cultural Revolution, a Ming dynasty bamboo carver named Shen Dasheng, and the circle of Chinese connoisseurs who took a Westerner in. Best heard on the way up to the two upper galleries, where most of the collection is shown.
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