Nanjing Museum-NJCIT Cooperation Boosts "Chinese Bridge" Cultural Exchanges

What happens when live streaming is combined with national-grade relics? On the afternoon of June 7, NJCIT's 2022 Chinese Bridge Delegation Online Exchange Program Summer Camp was staged in Nanjing Museum. Experts and scholars, as live streamers, carried out a live streaming activity with the theme of Visiting Nanjing Museum Online, Exploring the Ancient Capital of Six Dynasties. Nearly 100 teachers and students from Thailand participated in this activity.

Hosted by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of P.R.C. and organized by NJCIT, the Summer Camp has engaged nearly 100 teachers and students from Thailand in the online study since its launch in May. This live streaming activity is part of the teaching activities of the program. It aims to provide the audience with an opportunity to admire national treasures at close range and feel the regional characteristics of Nanjing, a city famous for its history and culture, through online tours of the museum.

In this activity, experts from the Nanjing Museum introduced in detail fine cultural relics such as bonsai ware, official kiln porcelain, and silver-inlaid bronze ware, explained their past and present to foreign teachers and students, and briefly introduced characteristic collections of Jiangsu's archaeological achievements and landscape paintings of past dynasties. In the activity, Teacher Shen from the School of Digital Arts of NJCIT had on-site exchanges with experts from Nanjing Museum on behalf of the online audience. Some of the audience said: Taking historical relics as the starting point and adopting the form of live streaming in international cultural exchanges will publicize Chinese culture in a more vivid way, and make it easier to arouse cultural resonance. Such museum-college cooperation will enhance the appeal of the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

This activity combines the two education forms of NJCIT and Nanjing Museum, which not only demonstrates Nanjing's history and culture to the world, but also represents an innovation in international cultural dissemination and exchanges. This live streaming activity showed talking cultural relics, unveiling the elegance of Nanjing, the ancient capital of six dynasties, to the world in a brand-new way and providing overseas people with an opportunity to participate in the interaction, understand Chinese culture, and experience Nanjing.

Photo/Text by Zheng Xiancai, International Exchange and Cooperation Department

Reviewed by Cao Xue, International Exchange and Cooperation Department