A conversation between Christine Howald and Nicola Kuhn
From the summer of 1900 onward, an Eight-Nation Alliance brutally suppressed the anti-Western Yihetuan uprising in China and looted palaces, temples, and private homes.
To this day, traces of the Boxer War (1900/1901) can be found in national and individual memory as well as in our public and private collections.
To this day, traces of the Boxer War (1900/1901) can be found in national and individual memory as well as in our public and private collections.
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VISUAL Christine Howald & Nicola Kuhn
Taking the exhibition “Currents” by Charlotte Ming Yangkun Shi at the Dahlem Research Campus as a point of departure, journalist Nicola Kuhn and historian Christine Howald engage with Germany’s involvement in the Boxer War and its long-term political and cultural repercussions.
The event opens with a historical contextualization of the war and its transnational dimensions by Christine Howald, project leader of the German-Chinese collaborative research project “Traces of the ‘Boxer War’ in German Museum Collections.”
This is followed by Nicola Kuhn’s presentation of her publication “The Chinese Folding Screen: How Colonialism Entered German Living Rooms,” in which she examines the circulation of Chinese objects within German collecting practices and everyday contexts.
In a subsequent in-depth conversation, Howald and Kuhn reflect on colonial practices of appropriation, the trajectories of looted objects, and contemporary debates surrounding the handling of colonial heritage.
A following discussion offers the audience an opportunity for exchange. The Dahlem Research Campus then invites participants to a reception to conclude the evening.
- Free admission
- Please register in advance
IN GERMAN
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Dates
February 2026
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