Clockwise from bottom: A painted "mud gold" fan, a shadow puppet from Huaxian county, Henan Province and Tian Hongbo's peach stone carving Flying Kites (Photos/Courtesy of Wu Wanlin)
Clockwise from bottom: A painted "mud gold" fan, a shadow puppet from Huaxian county, Henan Province and Tian Hongbo's peach stone carving Flying Kites (Photo/Courtesy of Wu Wanlin)
Clockwise from bottom: A painted "mud gold" fan, a shadow puppet from Huaxian county, Henan Province and Tian Hongbo's peach stone carving Flying Kites (Photo/Courtesy of Wu Wanlin)
A digitalized Chinese craft exhibition titled The Art of Chinese Crafts went online on Google's cultural exhibition website on Wednesday.
Partnering with six traditional Chinese art organizations including the China Intangible Heritage Industry Alliance and the China Paper Cutting Museum, the online exhibition offers 38 exhibits featuring collections of videos and pictures of more than 1,800 Chinese handcrafts and artworks such as silver accessories from the Miao ethnic minority, peach stone carvings and hand-made silk tapestries.
By clicking onto The Art of Chinese Crafts link on the Google Cultural Institute site, viewers can browse through articles and albums organized under different themes, and zoom in on individual artworks to check out each detail. Additionally viewers can take virtual tours of partnered museums with the help of Google Maps.
According to project manager Simon Rein, the exhibition seeks to "preserve Chinese national treasures with the help of digital technology and enable Internet users around the globe to read the stories behind them."
