Asian Art and History — Voices and Spaces of a Chinese Homeand Its Voyage to America

Lecture Asian Art and History Voices and Spaces of a Chinese Home and Its Voyage to America Nancy Berliner, Ph.D. , Professor of East Asian Art, Curator of Chinese Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Yin Yu Tang is a 250-year-old house from a small mountain village in China, inhabited over the centuries by eight generations of one family, now standing at the center of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Join curator Nancy Berliner as she gives her first-hand account of coming upon the house, the process of working with the government officials to bring the house to Massachusetts, her conversations with family members about the house's history, what it took to ship it to the other side of the world, rebuilding it on site and creating a narrative for the hundreds of thousands of people who now visit the house each year. This presentation is part of the Asian Art and History series. Image: xxxxx -->