Nancy Berliner, curator of Chinese art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, explores the transformation of Shanghai into a multi-cultural, international city, from the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th. Three waves of Jewish immigrants–from the Middle East, Russia and Germany–discovered in Shanghai a hospitable refuge from persecution, and an opportunity to create a new community.
Nancy Berliner is curator of Chinese art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and has curated exhibits of Chinese arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. She has lectured at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, the Asia Society of Houston, and the China Institute. She has written for the New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Asian Art, and American Craft magazines, and is the author of Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House, Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Century, and Chinese Folk Art.
This program took place at the Museum on March 4, 2010.
