2013 Contents Preface / P_05> Overview / P_07> SICA Profile / P_13> Cultural Performances and Exhibitions, 2013 / P_17> Foreign Exchange, 2013 / P_37> Academic Conferences, 2013 / P_55> Foreign Visits & Receptions, 2013 / P_65> Summary of Cultural Exchanges and Foreign Visits, 2013 / P_73> List of Council Members / P_81> Preface With the improvement of China’s comprehensive national strength and international status, much importance is unprecedentedly attached to overseas-oriented cultural publicity. This renders favorable conditions, as well as precious opportunities, for cultural communications between China and foreign countries. The year 2013 is one with plenty of challenges and benefits, as we made remarkable achievements on the ground of advantageous overseas- oriented publicity based on Great Culture. On behalf of the entire staff of SICA, I hereby extend our sincere gratitude for the concern and support offered by multifarious levels of government departments, various partner institutions and cultural institutions, people from all circles of life, and friends from both home and abroad. In this booklet we present an annual report on the events held and programs initiated in 2013 in forms of journals and pictures, with a hope that our friends from different fields will know better about SICA, continue to provide support for us, and move forward alongside with us to make more achievements in cultural communications between China and foreign countries. Deng Xiaoxian Vice President and Secretary-General Shanghai International Culture Association December, 2013 「Beautiful Mourtain Flower in Full Bloom」(detail) Tang Yilan From Hong Kong-Shanghai Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition 2013 2013年报 Overview (detail) Norbert Page From United Exhibition of Modern Chinese and French Paintings 2013 Annual Report PART1 1 Overview Overview style. The exhibition exposed the Western visitors to the Chinese traditional culture, revealing its infinite vitality and charm. SICA was not only engaged in promoting the Chinese cultural heritage: it laid stress on the inheritance of the traditions as well. To present the colorful Shanghai- In line with the overseas cultural promotion strategy raised in the 12th Five- style culture to the world, SICA and Shanghai University Centre for Shanghai-Style Year Plan, as well as with the attempt to turn Shanghai into an international cultural Cultural Studies (CSSCS) jointly initiated the translation of the Shanghai-Style metropolis, SICA has been actively opening up channels to interact with foreign Culture Series, which included 33 books published in 2010 by the two institutions. countries and areas, continuously making innovations on the substance and forms of SICA and CSSCS planned to partner with Shanghai Interpreters’ Association to cultural exchanges, and thus vigorously serving as a platform of communication in translate and publish 12 volumes of the condensed Series in two years. cultural integration and development and actively contributing to the constrution of At the end of 2013, SICA actively took part in the “Abu Dhabi Chinese Intangible Chinese Cultural Soft Power. For the whole year of 2013, SICA has hosted, co-hosted Cultural Art Expo 2013”, providing support for the overseas promotion of Chinese or supported over 60 items of events, which were very well received by the public. intangible cultural art through national platform for cultural trade. I. Chinese Culture Has Expression in International Community II. Culture Enhances Communications The Chinese culture enjoys a long and uninterrupted history, as well as a rich In the world characteristic of diverse cultural values and social thoughts, SICA and inclusive heritage. In the year 2013, SICA integrated multifarious forms of art on endeavored to establish bridges and platforms for cultural communications and the basis of traditional Chinese culture, and presented to the international community exchanges among various civilizations. SICA took initiative to expand Sino-foreign the unique charm of blending glamorous Chinese cultural heritage and colorful exchanges through holding cultural events. contemporary culture. In 2013, SICA cooperated with the Information Office of Shanghai Municipality In the festival of 2013, SICA presented to the European audience a feast and Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles to hold a series of cultural of genuine Chinese culture at the Golden Hall in Vienna. Named “The Arts of events, including the photographic art exhibitions named “Green Shanghai” at Thousands of Years: Symphony Concert of Anhui and Peking Operas” , the the headquarter of UNEP located in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, the promotion performance combined elements of Anhui Opera, Peking Opera and symphony, of Shanghai’s city image themed with “Amazing Shanghai” at the Rockefeller rendered new interpretations for China’s traditional operas in totally different artistic Center in New York, and “Photography Exhibition of Shanghai Lifestyle.” These forms, and thus enriched and developed the art heritage in the country. Munich events presented to people around the world the sophisticated Chinese culture and Symphony Orchestra was invited to accompany the performance. the colorful Shanghai-style culture, facilitated them to understand and appreciate As the fine flower of the Chinese traditional art, ink painting gives out unique Chinese art and culture, and encouraged them to come to China and take a look at the fragrance in the garden of world art, rather than merely bearing testimony to the country by themselves. Chinese culture. Consecutively, SICA held in Hong Kong and Hamburg two art On September 24, “United Exhibition of Modern Sino-French Paintings 2013” exhibitions, namely “Hong Kong-Shanghai Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition” raised the curtain at Montauban Art Center. The exhibition was jointly sponsored and “China in Ink and Wash: Chinese Painting in Shanghai.” The classic expressions by SICA, Montauban Municipal Government and the BAM Gallery in France. The of ink and wash, integrated with elements of contemporary art, conveyed the idea opening ceremony was hosted by Brigitte Bareges, major of the city. The former that “art has to keep pace with the times.” The works of art, as well as the lectures French Prime Minister Raffarin sent a letter of congratulations, expressing his provided during the exhibitions, illuminated the unique characteristics of the Chinese wish for a successful exhibition. After its successful debut in Shanghai in 2011, the art, and refined the European visitors’ taste for the oriental art. exhibition has become a regular program jointly sponsored by SICA and the BAM In October, SICA joined hands with the Shanghai Liu Haisu Art Museum in Gallery. Both sides agreed to bring the exhibition to Shanghai and Montauban in turn hosting the exhibition “Essence of Paper: Paintings on Paper of Contemporary each year, and thus to promote exchanges and cooperation between the two cities. Chinese Yong Artists” in the Netherlands. It was on paper, the most elementary and The year 2013 also saw the program for art exchange between the Chinese familiar media of art, that the artists plunged into various visual forms and integrated and Australian aboriginals. Focusing on the intangible cultural heritage in China Chinese and Western art expressions. The Paper Culture, highly esteemed in the and Australia, SICA organized aboriginal artists from both countries to visit each Chinese cultural traditions, was hereby embodied in visual artworks of contemporary other, so that they could collect source materials and conduct art creation. The direct 2013年报 上海市对外文化交流协会 Shanghai International Culture Association P_08+09 ANNUAL REPORT Annual Report PART1 1 Overview contact between Sino-foreign artists was an innovation on the form of cultural IV. Academic Platforms Promote Brain Gain communications, as well as enrichment to reciprocal interactions. With easy access to channels of international communications and exchanges, SICA organized in 2013 around 20 events for international academic exchanges in III. Stages Radiate Splendor the fields of humanities, social sciences, economy, finance, science and technology. In 2013, SICA abided by the cultural identification and position of Chinese SICA, obtaining support from its council members and institutions of academic nationality in holding multifarious cultural events, and in the meantime absorbed the research or higher education in Shanghai, took initiative to promote international nutrition from foreign civilizations. The cultural and artistic performances have been communications, and to establish non-governmental platform for brain gain, and adding luster to the cultural life in Shanghai. finally to serve the social and economic development of Shanghai and the diplomacy Co-hosted by SICA, “You Are the Man: Treasures Exhibition in Memory of China. of Zhou Enlai’s 115th Birthday” had its opening on November 15 at China Art Focusing on international situation, SICA held successively in the year 2013 a Museum in Shanghai. The highlights of the exhibition were the epigraphs, paintings, couple of international conferences, such as “The 11th Conference on Central Asia calligraphies, and photographs collected during the production of the large-scale TV and Shanghai Cooperation Organization”, “Silk Roads toward the Asian Community documentary Enlai in the Past One Hundred Years, filmed in memory of the 100th of Law and Society: EALS 3rd Conference” , “The 11th Conference on Central