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At Pavilion, we offer a space to rest, contemplate and explore the arts of East Asia and its cultures across the world.
In our gallery, our seasonal collections of fine artefacts and paintings are of the highest quality and provenance.
Our arts journal, the Orchid Pavilion, explores questions of art, identity and diaspora, while the Pavilion Archive shares with permission valuable research materials we’ve discovered along the way.
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The Orchid Pavilion
Mosquito writing, a female-only, secret Chinese script, nüshu: these are all terms used to describe a written language used by the Yao minority in the Hunanese county of Jiangyong. Used exclusively amongst women since at least the 13th century, nüshu was developed as a necessity; as skills such as literacy were inaccessible to women, this melodic, monosyllabic style of writing, speaking, and singing was once their primary form of communication.
Looking back at something as sweet and simple as the memory of 90’s Cantopop songs that my dad would sing on TV karaoke when he used to see me once a week...I still remember the sounds of the lyrics even if I don’t know what they mean.
Looking back at something as sweet and simple as the memory of 90’s Cantopop songs that my dad would sing on TV karaoke when he used to see me once a week...I still remember the sounds of the lyrics even if I don’t know what they mean.
