{"id":28261,"date":"2016-11-28T16:18:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T03:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nzcfs.adminmouse.co.nz\/?p=28261"},"modified":"2016-12-10T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:29:31","slug":"first-fellow-of-winston-churchill-memorial-trust-nzcfs-is-a-conservator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/first-fellow-of-winston-churchill-memorial-trust-nzcfs-is-a-conservator\/","title":{"rendered":"First Fellow of Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (NZCFS) is a Conservator"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Diana Coop, Conservator, is first Fellow of the prestigious Winston Churchill Memorial Trust-NZCFS Fellowship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In June 2016, the New Zealand China Friendship Society (NZCFS) joined with the prestigious Winston Churchill Memorial Trust which awards annual Fellowships to Kiwis who wish to progress in their chosen field in helping peoples overseas.<\/p>\n

The Fellowship involving NZCFS<\/a> specifies that this particular Fellowship be for travel to China to gain knowledge, understanding and experience of Chinese culture and values whilst also sharing NZ culture and values in China.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Fellowship winner, indeed the first, was recently announced with Diana Coop being the successful applicant.<\/p>\n

Diana will now be able to follow her wish to open a collegial exchange, i.e. an exchange between experts in her field, in order to provide improved professional relationships between New Zealand and Chinese conservators of cultural materials. Many exhibitions of cultural materials are presently being organised by both countries with a view to exchange. However, little is known about the other country\u2019s conservation working practices, techniques and skills, with this being often further complicated by language barriers.<\/p>\n

Diana intends to travel to four Chinese main centres, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Beijing to meet material conservators in 19 major cultural institutions, where she hopes to investigate and build an understanding \u00a0of Chinese technical practices.<\/p>\n

Her visits to\u00a0art galleries, museums, libraries and history museums, will include Shanghai Museum; Palace Museum Beijing<\/strong> and the National Library of China<\/strong>. From these Diana will be able to report on protocols and standards used by Chinese conservators that should help to facilitate the organisation of future cultural exchanges involving the loan of art and other cultural materials and assist conservators and other cultural professionals to understand Chinese practices. \u00a0The report will help professionals to make decisions on how Chinese cultural materials coming to New Zealand and vice versa can be protected, delivered and exhibited in a safe way and to return them to their place of origin with the minimum of difficulty.<\/p>\n

This would avoid issues such as:<\/p>\n