Merry Christmas 2022 Everyone!

[Martin B]

Figure I'd wish everyone a great Christmas and  Happy New Year - we're in Chicago with family until Monday then making the trek home early next week. 

Very optimistic about finally being able to visit the mainland again Summer 2023, or at the very least Hong Kong if mainland restrictions are still too onerous. 

Hope everyone actually in China stays safe with this recent re-opening, and that in another month or two the situation will calm down and life will go back to pre-COVID times.

[Randy W]

Mary and Jesus in the Eyes of Chinese Painters

Since the late Ming dynasty, artists have been finding ways to depict the Virgin Mary and Jesus with Chinese painting techniques.

Read more: http://ow.ly/Wooh50MbSOL

from the Sixth Tone on Facebook 
https://www.facebook.com/sixthtone/posts/pfbid0238b3hTYVmdTP1ZLrShrbPrRw2XfeETXxEBocAU9znvZpjEPC7oN85PdRAXbGp4MZl

A group photo of artists from Fu Jen Catholic University, 1936. From left to right, Lu Hongnian, Wang Suda, Xu Jihua, Chen Yuandu, Chen Yuan (Fu Jen’s headmaster), Br. Berchmans Brückner, Zhang Huai (Dean of the School of Education), and Li Zhichao.

 

 

[Randy W]

Happy New Year!

Edited December 31, 2022 by Randy W (see edit history)