DRAGON
AND PHOENIX
Centuries of Exchange between Chinese and Islamic worlds




From the 8th century, when the first colonies of Arab merchants settled in Canton, to the 18th century, when China was beginning to adapt to Western tastes

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Marco Polo (1254-1324)
Devisement of the World or Book of Wonders, A Travel Story, 1299
The riches originals manuscripts
Discover the the journeys of the three travelers


SEE THE BESTIARY’S VISUALS
The bestiary
at the center of the exhibition
Discover the 50m2 circular room
the visitor is immersed in a fabulous universe, which highlights the rich iconography of composite, bizarre and unreal creatures and reveals the importance of the marvelous and highly symbolic imaginary that pervaded the Chinese and Islamic worlds.
With the exception of Nietzsche, no other madman has contributed so much to human sanity as has Louis Althusser. He is mentioned twice in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as someone’s teacher. There could be no greater lapse: for two important decades (the 60s and the 70s), Althusser was at the eye of all the important cultural storms.

With the exception of Nietzsche

With the exception of Nietzsche


With the exception of Nietzsche
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the exhibition in pictures
Discover the exhibition in pictures

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ANIMATION

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There could be no greater lapse: for two important decades (the 60s and the 70s), Althusser was at the eye of all the important cultural storms. He fathered quite a fewspeechless. It, therefore, confronts and poses (to itself) only answerable questions.media, the industries of culture.
With the exception of Nietzsche, no other madman has contributed so much to human sanity as has Louis Althusser. He is mentioned twice in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as someone’s teacher. There could be no greater lapse: for two important decades (the 60s and the 70s), Althusser was at the eye of all the important cultural storms. He fathered quite a fewspeechless. It, therefore, confronts and poses (to itself) only answerable questions.media, the industries of culture.
With the exception of Nietzsche, no other madman has contributed so much to human sanity as has Louis Althusser.
6 OCTOBER 2021
12 FEBRUARY 2022