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SUMMARY:Tour the Tall Ship Wavertree
DESCRIPTION:The tall ship Wavertree is open to the public. Visits will be self-guided along a set route and will include access to the main deck and quarter deck. Learn how people worked and lived aboard a 19th century cargo sailing vessel\, from the captain to the ship’s officers\, cooks\, and crew. Then visit the cargo hold and stand atop the viewing platform where you can take in the massive main cargo area. The Museum will allow no more than 150 guests on board the ship at any time to encourage social distancing from different households.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/tour-the-tall-ship-wavertree-12/
LOCATION:South Street Seaport Museum
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Ben Wang on The Story of the Stone
DESCRIPTION:The 18th-century novel The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin is a bildungsroman\, a tale of a battle between the flesh and the spirit\, a mixture of mysticism\, romanticism\, realism and fatalism\, a record of Taoist-Buddhist disenchantment and enlightenment\, and a critique of a society abiding by the rules of Confucianism\, and a novel of social commentary. It is a literary cri de coeur both celebrating the golden\, languorous days of youth and lamenting the inevitability of their passing\, and the pain and suffering all humans are doomed to endure – an eternal theme in literature. (Stone is the first important novel in Chinese literature with dark endings for almost all the main characters\, and in which the hero and his beloved not living happily ever after.) It is a book of manners and observations\, chronicling in meticulous details the glory and decay of an aristocratic family and the roots of this glory and decay in the social and historical confines of the early 18th century China during the last great flowering of the Chinese culture. At this lecture\, Mr. Ben Wang\, Senior Lecturer at China Institute and Co-Chair of the Renwen Society\, will focus his talk on the clarification\, or de-mystification\, of the two topics that were seldom\, if ever\, discussed or studied in the past. They are: 1. The chronological order in which the story of Stone is played out\, and 2. The order in which the 12 ladies\, heroines of the story\, appear in the poems and rebuses that both describe subtly and enigmatically their respective lives and foretell their different but equally fatal and tragic endings.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/ben-wang-on-the-story-of-the-stone/
LOCATION:China Institute
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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