{"id":6306,"date":"2025-06-21T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T03:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/?post_type=events&#038;p=6306"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:01:32","slug":"zhangqizhiwuwaixiaohuazhanyingyuyishujiayinghoufenxiang","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/events\/zhangqizhiwuwaixiaohuazhanyingyuyishujiayinghoufenxiang\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings&#8217;: Screening and Artist Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Opium War, a sense of anxiety and dread regarding the humid, tropical climate of South China permeated the British troops stationed in Hong Kong. The &#8216;miasma theory&#8217;, prevalent in the 19th century, linked epidemics to air quality, the environment, and race\u2014anxieties that indirectly shaped the class stratification and spatial morphology of Hong Kong which persist to this day.<br \/>\nDuring this period, the British colonial government began focusing on the afforestation of Hong Kong Island. The establishment of the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens served a dual purpose: collecting and categorising colonial botanical and natural knowledge for the British Empire&#8217;s naturalist disciplines. The demand for botanical archives among British naturalists, in turn, fuelled the popularity of &#8216;export paintings&#8217; in Europe.<br \/>\nThis work focuses on tracing the impact of early colonialism and imperial expansion on the spatial and natural forms of Guangdong and Hong Kong. It also seeks to explore the resonances and divergences between historical modes of East-West cultural and commercial exchange and those of the contemporary era.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"event_category":[82,64],"class_list":["post-6306","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","category-a4-art-museum","event_category-open-class","event_category-community-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/6306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}