https://www.scmp.com/rss/517757/feed Charlotte Ming is a journalist based in Berlin, Germany. Her work focuses on underreported and nuanced stories about culture, history and migration. She has been published in National Geographic, TIME, Atlas Obscura, among others. Before moving to Berlin, she worked as a journalist and photo editor for TIME and Getty Images in New York. She is a recipient of the Robert Bosch Crossing Borders grant and the Kim Wall Memorial Fund by the International Women’s Media Foundation for her research into... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In the storeroom of Hamburg’s Markk Museum am Rothenbaum, one of the world’s largest ethnographic museums, is a guqin, a seven-stringed Chinese zither – one of the oldest instruments made in China, historically played only by nobles and scholars. This particular black piece, expertly crafted and finished with a high-gloss lacquer, has inscriptions at its base dating it to 1789, during the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty. What’s puzzling is that the instrument rests in a case considerably... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3253649/how-german-museums-are-reassessing-their-imperial-chinese-treasures-worried-about-looted-boxer-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3253649/how-german-museums-are-reassessing-their-imperial-chinese-treasures-worried-about-looted-boxer-war?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:15:11 +0000