Helena Motoh

• Science and Research Centre of Koper

The extremely large collection of objects brought from Beijing to Ljubljana in 1920 by naval officer Ivan Skušek Jr. and his Japanese wife Tsuneko Kondo Kawase, also includes several opium pipes, a few opium lamps and some other objects related to opium use. The objects are exquisitely decorated with complex motifs. While this is the main topic, th...

The paper focuses on an aspect of the history of the collection of Ivan Skušek Jr., an early 20th century Slovenian collector that has not yet been looked at thoroughly, namely, its “apartment” period, the time when the collection was on display in three consecutive apartments Ivan Skušek Jr. and his Japanese wife lived in. Due to the failed plans...

Članek se ukvarja s problematiki muzealizacije človeških ostankov na primeru dveh tibetanskih predmetov iz zbirk Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja, iz lobanje narejena skleda (thod pa/kapāla), ki je bila del zbirke jezuitskega Indijskega muzeja, in bobenček (damaru) iz dveh lobanj, ki je v muzej prišel kot del Skuškove zbirke. V prvem delu bo članek...

This paper focuses on the methodological problem of contextualizing singular, ‘orphaned’ museum objects when provenance is unknown. In the late 1940s in Slovenia/Yugoslavia, the haste and non-transparent process of confiscation and subsequent reappropriation took many objects from collections that they were part of and placed them in new contexts,...

The paper focuses on the phenomenon of quoting Confucius, the classical Chinese thinker of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Firstly, it approaches the core issue of quotes and historicity of the “master said” narrative which marked the tradition of quoting Confucius and understanding his heritage through the form of quotes. In the core part of the paper,...

V nasprotju z apostolskim pismom Maximum illud, ki je od misijonarjev zahtevalo, da pretrgajo vezi z nacional(istič)nimi in kolonialnimi interesi, je bil misijonarski podvig medvojnih jugoslovanskih misijonark in misijonarjev v Bengaliji globoko prežet s patriotizmom, tako časopisje kot misijonarski tiski pa so jugoslovanski bengalski misijon prika...

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Članek se ukvarja z vzponom in zatonom novega modela kitajske kulturne diplomacije, ki se je utrdil pred dobrim desetletjem in je bil utemeljen v neotradicionalističnem ideološkem okviru predsedovanja Hu Jintaa in Wen Jiabaa. Hitro širjenje institucij kitajske kulturne diplomacije je na prvi pogled predstavljalo možnost novega in bolj poglobljenega...

The paper focuses on the rise and fall of the new model of Chinese cultural diplomacy which was established more than a decade ago and which is based on the neo-traditionalist ideological framework of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao's leadership. At fi rst glance, the rapid expansion of the institutions of Chinese cultural diplomacy seemed to be an opport...

The paper focuses on the phenomenon of the Silk Road, one of the most important historical connections between Europe and East Asia, in order to explore possible approaches to intercultural exchange on the level of ideas, especially in cases where these are intertwined with social, political and economic processes. In the introduction it applies th...

Decades of Chinese intense economic growth caused many serious ecological problems: exhaustion of natural resources, endangered biodiversity and worsening pollution of the living environment. The presidency of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao offi cially focused its policies on repairing the negative consequences that had resulted from Jiang Zemin- Zhu Ron...

All over Former Yugoslavia the eighties were marked by an appearance of a great number of new alternative culture movements, while at the same time significant new ideas were introduced in the field of philosophy and theory in general. The proposed paper focuses on a particular example of dialogue between theory and culture in this period: on the t...

The 100th anniversary of the revival of the Olympic idea questioned the Europeanness of the Olympic ideal in the globalised reality - the 1996 centennial Olympics were given to the hometown of Coca-Cola Company, and it wasn't until 2004 that Athens got the chance to celebrate the anniversary, while the 2008 Olympics went to China. In Chinese contex...