私访荷兰最新私人美术馆系列一: 一个不愿被暴露在大众面前的荷兰私人收藏家

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Delden，一个在荷兰东部的小城，开车再向东开15分钟左右就会到达德意志共和国了。这个平时平静得被荷兰人都忽略的地方，在过去的一年里，似乎有些不太“安宁”。 一个全新的私人美术馆正在紧张筹备中，Museum No Hero（中文直译：无英雄美术馆），一个似乎与这个小城不太匹配的时髦又冷酷的名字将会成为这个三百多年建筑的新身份，还有那些蠢蠢欲动的艺术品们。这个背负着五个世纪与五大洲艺术品，讲诉这这个博物馆长希尔特·斯坦恩麦尔的私人旅程的圣地，即将在今年四月中旬向大众开放。这也是在这几年里，第三个在荷兰（即将）开业的不靠政府资助，自负盈亏的私人美术馆。

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Chinese new year

An introduction to Chinese Kun Opera

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To celebrate International Women’s Day, the Embassy of China in the Netherlands and China Cultural Centre Den Haag hosted a special event about Chinese Kun Opera for a group of international women. The beautiful photo exhibition on Kun Opera will last till the end of March 2018. Floating Feather was honoured to give a special guided tour and would like to share a brief overview of Kun Opera in this article.

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Kevin Kwan’s new book launch and Film Crazy Rich Asians

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CRTV (Hong Tong Wu and Miki Dai) attended the book launch of Kevin Kwan (关凯文) at Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam. Kevin Kwan was mentioned as the ‘5 Most Powerful Authors to watch‘ by Hollywood Reporter Magazine in 2016. Next year, The Hunger Games’ producer Nina Jacobson’s Color Force will present a historical full Asian-Cast film ‘Crazy Rich Asians‘ (based on the same title by Kevin Kwan) in Hollywood with the distribution partner, Warner Brothers.

Read the Chinese article and listen to the interview in English on www.crtv.nl

 

The summer of 2017, Shanghai

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Cashless Payment: WeChat Pay v.s. AliPay

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WeChat Pay and Alipay are the two dominant mobile payment players in China. Mobile payment replaced cash or bank card payment about two years ago throughout 1st and 2nd-tier cities in China. It has been accepted widely from breakfast vendors on the street to international unisex casual-wear brands, Uniqlo. WeChat Pay, owned by Tencent, supports transfers on both ways. An individual can also receive money from other contacts or pay for the sharing bike rental fee from OfO (Xiao Huang Che) after scanning the QR code on the bike. According to Tencent, Alipay which is owned by Alibaba Group, lost his dominance in online payment in China since 2017. The introduction of one feature Red Envelope (Hong Bao) by Wechat enables virtual Red Envelope transfers between Wechat contacts for the Chinese New Year. However, WeChat Pay and Alipay are both going strong despite of the fact that Baidu and Sina launched similar features recently. It is now also a good way for the locals to spot non-locals by looking at whether they use mobile payment or by cash.

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TangGuo in Europe

Will TangGuo 棠果 succeed AirBNB and Booking.com?

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More and more young, high educated Chinese tourists are visiting the Netherlands. Not in large groups, but travelling individually and off the beaten path. More over, it is expected that within 5 years over half a million Chineses tourists will visit the Netherlands yearly. Tangguo, a online travel platform with over 3.5 million members already, sees this trend as well and recently opened their first European office in The Hague.

At a grand ceremony in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Tangguo presented their plans for the future. Miki Dai interviewed the CEO of Tangguo, Dongzhe Jin, and one of the investors, Jungqing Lu.

Listen or read the inverview at www.crtv.nl.

We Are Public Miki Dai

Cultural Optimist: We Are Public Marketing Campaign

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Miki proudly participated in the creative photo shoot for We Are Public as a ‘Cultural Optimist’. The photo is part of a nation-wide marketing campaign in The Netherlands.

We Are Public is a cultural membership pass which allows the members to get unlimited access to the best art & culture in some Dutch cities with a monthly contribution of  € 15. The big part of the contribution goes to the artists directly.

We Are Public is born in Amsterdam in 2015. Soon after it became active in Den Haag. And in May, Tilburg, Eindhoven, Den Bosch, Breda and Helmond participated in this initiative. The partners of We Are Public consist of the most prestigious museums, festivals, theaters and film houses such as The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Holland Festival, Amsterdam City Theater and EYE Film Museum.

Overnieuw Healt Care Innovation in Shanghai

Health Care Innovation in Shanghai

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China is facing huge challenges in health care the coming years. In 2040 there will be more than 400 million elderly people over 60. That’s why China is interested in the success stories of the Dutch health care system. At the same time, Holland can learn from China in the way families and local communities are involved in taking care of the elderly.

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Floating Feather connected Over/Nieuw, a Dutch innovative health care organisation, with a Shanghainese health care innovator and arranged an exchange visit. Read more about this project at www.overnieuw.nl.

Miki Dai at Groningen Confucius Institute

Groningen Confucius Institute celebrates Chinese New Year

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Groningen Confucius Institute (GCI) successfully held a Chinese New Year celebration on Feb 2, 2017 in A’Dam Toren, a landmark building in Amsterdam. The celebration featured traditional Chinese dancing, household songs and various other exciting performances. The celebration also witnessed the signing ceremony of the strategic partnership between GCI and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) Amsterdam branch. Around 200 guests from different cultural backgrounds merrily joined the celebration.

Miki Dai was honored to perform the beautiful song The Love From Your Eye at this special occasion.

Please click here to find out more about the Groningen Confucius Institute.