Flying Carpet
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Flying Carpet
Author: Diana Yue
language: en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date: 2000-04-01
From the pen of one of Hong Kong's leading writers, Xi Xi (1938 - ), Flying Carpet mirrors the past and present of Fertillia, an island city situated on the south-eastern coast of the huge country of Dragonland. Fertillia is of course Hong Kong, and the novel is part history and part imagination, a rich tapestry of the local material culture and a vivid portrayal of sensitive Chinese minds, a saga of the Fa family who has lived through Fertillia's development from a small village to a cosmopolitan metropolis. On top of the personal drama involving three generations of people, the author casts her narrative net over many walks of life in the city and suggests the uniqueness of Fertillia's existence within a cosmic order of rare elegance and harmony.
Flying Carpets
"Flying Carpet" is the catalog for the exhibition of the same name presented at Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome, and conceived by Philippe-Alain Michaud in 2012. "Flying carpets" offers a journey through centuries, countries and techniques. Between past and present, Oriental and Western worlds, ornament and abstraction, carpets travel through times, cultures and trends--they can be found in Renaissance paintings, contemporary installations or even films, until they turn exhibition spaces themselves into travelling and transformation places.
