Venue: Peninsula Shanghai
Arrivals – Sunday, November 1
10:00-14:30 Registration Peninsula Shanghai
10:00-13:00 Optional: Tour of Jewish Shanghai
15:00 Depart for tour of Greater Shanghai Municipality’s “Chinese Art Deco” architecture & opening reception.
18:00-20:00 Opening Reception, Pei Mansion
Day 1 – Monday, November 2
7:00-12:00 Registration Peninsula Shanghai
8:15-8:30 Welcoming Remarks
8:30-9:15 Session 1: Art Deco: A Vital Strand of China’s Multiple Modernities/Dr. Edward Denison, author Modernism in China; Luke Him Sau, Architect; & Building Shanghai
9:20-10:05 Session 2: Motifs in Art Nouveau & Art Deco: To and From China/Lynn Pan, author Shanghai Style
10:10-10:55 Session 3: Shanghai’s Art Deco Architects – Panel Session/Michelle Qiao, author, Shanghai Hudec Architecture other panelists TBC.
11:00-11:45 Session 4: Art Deco Design in Chinese Films Dr. Linda Johnson/ Royal Asiatic Society film convenor
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Walking Tours: Five different tours will be held daily in Art Deco neighborhoods throughout the city.
16:00 Tours return to Peninsula
17:30 Depart for dinner at Qian Xiang Fang
18:00 Pre-Dinner Talk: “100 Years of Shanghai’s Expat History”/Tess Johnston, author Shanghai Art Deco
19:00 Dinner at Qian Xiang Fang, in the restaurant and ballroom of the historic Wing On Department Store
Day 2 – Tuesday, November 3
8:30-9:15 Session 5: Shanghai’s Grand Art Deco Hotels/Peter Hibbard, author of Peace at the Cathay
9:20-10:05 Session 6: Texture, Ornament, Energy: Art Deco and Shanghai typography design. /Karolina Pawlik, anthropologist & art historian.
10:10-10:55 Session 7: Shanghai Art Deco Interiors/Spencer Dodington, author of Shanghai’s Art Deco Master
11:00-11:45 Session 8: Laszlo Hudec’s Shanghai Art Deco/Virag Csejdy (Hudec Cultural Foundation, Hungary)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Walking Tours: Five different tours will be held daily in Art Deco neighborhoods throughout the city.
17:00 Kun Qu: Shanghai Opera in an Art Deco Theater / Shaoxing Road.
19:30 Dinner in the Art Deco ballroom of the former Cercle Sportif Francais (French Club) Talk by Charles Lagrange, author of “Shanghai’s Art Deco Master” about Paul Veysseyre, the building’s architect.
Day 3 – Wednesday, November 4
8:30-9:15 Session 9: Shanghai Nightscapes /Dr. Andrew Field, author Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture & Urban Politics & Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City.
9:20-10:05 Session 10: Rediscovering the Hybrid Modernism of Poy Gum Lee/Kerri Culhane, architectural historian & curator of “Chinese Style: Rediscovering the Architecture of Poy Gum Lee”
10:10-10:55 Session 11: The father of Chinese Art Deco: Liu Jipiao/Jennifer Wong, Liu Jipiao’s granddaughter, is researching his story
11:00-11:45 Session 12: Conservation of China’s Urban Heritage/Professor Shen Xiaoming
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Walking Tours: Five different tours will be held daily in Art Deco neighborhoods throughout the city.
18:30 Dinner at Fu 1039, an old Shanghai mansion, featuring a vintage Shanghainese menu
Day 4 – Thursday, November 5
8:30-9:15 Session 13: The Art Deco Department Stores of Shanghai: The Chinese Australian Connection/Peter Hack
9:20-10:05 Session 14: Boulevard Moscou: Russians, Art Deco & Shanghai/Katya Knyazeva, journalist, researcher and expert on Russians in old Shanghai.
10:10-12.30 Field Trip! Visit to “Shanghai Art Deco” furniture shop, Moganshan Road.
13:00 Walking tours: Five different tours will be held daily in Art Deco neighborhoods throughout the city.
16:00 Return to hotels
18:30 Dinner on own
17:00 Optional: Night Markets Street Food Tour
22:30 Optional: Shanghai Nightscapes – a night on the town with Dr. Andrew Field, author of Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City.
Day 5 – Friday, November 6
8:30-9:15 Session 17: Tropical Asian Art Deco: Singapore’s Debt to Shanghai Art Deco / Dr. Julian Davidson
9:20-10:05 Session 18: Death by Deco: Manila’s Art Deco Graveyards / Ivan Man Dy
10:10-10:55 Session 19: Chinese Exotica in California in the Art Deco Era/Therese Poletti
11:00-11:45 Session 20: Welcome to Cleveland! 14th World Congress 2017 /Dr. Mick Beyer
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Walking tours: Five different tours will be held daily in Art Deco neighborhoods throughout the city.
18:30 Cocktails: Old Jazz Bar, Fairmont Peace Hotel (optional, at own cost)
20:00 “Last Dance”: Gala Dinner, Ballroom, Fairmont Peace Hotel
A grand evening in the glamorous ballroom renowned for the decadent parties thrown by the Cathay Hotel’s owner, Sir Victor Sassoon. The chef will prepare a menu based on an original 1931 Cathay Hotel menu – for details, click here.
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