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Asian art had a foothold in the U.S. as early as the 18th century, when blue and white Chinese porcelain was a mark of wealth and taste in households, like Thomas Jefferson's, that could afford it. Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival in Tokyo Bay in 1853, which forced Meiji Japan to open itself to Western influence, led to a concurrent craze in Europe and the U.S. for all things Japanese. By the turn of the century Ernest Fenollosa and William Sturgis Bigelow, learned Bostonians infatuated with Japan, were assembling the great collections of furniture, scrollwork, carvings and prints that...
...Republic of China is established!" "Long live Chairman Mao!" answered the crowd, which began cheering soldiers fresh from battle as they marched in the new country's first military parade. Guo stood behind Mao and wept for "a victory won with the blood of millions of revolutionaries." --By Matthew Forney...
...sent out e-mails, but since nobody is really around for spring break, there was really a limit to what we could do,” said Matthew Skomarovski ’03, a member of HIPJ. “But that in no way detracted from the event: it was enormous...
...Matthew R. Skomarovsky ’03—a member of the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ), an anti-war group which organized the rally—said that hundreds more students and locals showed up than had originally signed up for the protest...
...It’s really shaped the legacy of the Fogg,” says museum spokesperson Matthew Barone...