CHINESE TOGGLES: CULTURE IN MINIATURE – A CHAU CHAK WING AND POWERHOUSE MUSEUM PROJECT – TAASA Review March 2023

Shuxia Chen T he project Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature, including an exhibition coproduced with the Powerhouse museum, a book co-published with Power Publications and the Powerhouse museum, together with a series of public and object-based learning programs, showcases the important role Chau Chak Wing Museum, as a university museum, plays in researching, exhibiting and engaging – in this case with one of the world’s largest Chinese belt toggle collections. Toggle of a miniature abacus with a hidden compartment, China, c.

1700-1940, wood, bone.

Powerhouse collection, gift of Mr Alastair Morrison, 1992 The exhibition Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature, a rare and large-scale presentation of Chinese belt toggles – a disappeared sartorial tradition in China – is scheduled to run from 29 April 2023 to May 2024 at the China Gallery, Chau Chak Wing Museum...