" LONDON nike air force 1 noir blanche pas cher , Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- A British Chinese collector said Friday that he will bring more than 100 pieces of Chinese export porcelain he collected over the past three decades back to China for a touring exhibition, and part of the collection will be donated to a Chinese museum.
Xi Jianjun told a press conference that his collection of Chinese export porcelain will be exhibited at the Overseas Chinese History Museum in Beijing on Nov. 8, when he will donate some of the exhibits to the museum as a permanent collection.
Chinese export porcelain was made almost exclusively for export to Europe and later to North America between the 16th and the 20th century. For centuries, it has been a luxury favored by royal families and nobility. Merchants from Europe and the United States traveled thousands of miles to China to buy customized porcelain products.
Xi said that part of the collection will soon be on display, including a pastel dish of ""West Chamber"" and a porcelain bowl ""lady Zhaojun bidding farewell over the frontier"" in Qing Dynasty, as well as porcelain depicting Greek mythology nike air force 1 noir mid pas cher , biblical stories and other western stories.
""These hundreds-year-old ancient porcelain not only helps historians study the history of Chinese porcelain, but also trace the trade between China and the Western world in China's Ming and Qing Dynasties, with high historical value,"" British porcelain expert and historian Maurice Hyams said.
""It is time to take them back to their parents and let people know more about their overseas life and experience, and through them we can witness the cultural exchanges and trade relations between the Chinese and Western society hundreds of years ago,"" Xi said.
He said that the export porcelain came to Europe hundreds of years ago along the Maritime Silk Road for business nike air force 1 noir basse pas cher , and now they will come back to China due to patriotism. ""I hope people would feel the hearts of our overseas Chinese through these exhibits.""
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TOKYO, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Nikkei stock index surged 2.38 percent Monday as investors bought back issues on dips following the market's fall at the end of last week triggered by geopolitical concerns in Iraq and Ukraine.
The Nikkei 225 index gained 352.15 points to close at 15,130.52, while the broader Topix index of all first-section issues rose 1. 97 percent, or 24.25 points, to finish at 1 nike air force 1 noir pas cher ,252.51.
Local brokers said that sentiment here had turned positive following a solid lead from Wall Street overnight on Friday and on easing concerns about geopolitical situations including those in Iraq and Ukraine.
They pointed to U.S. President Barack Obama saying that airstrikes in Iraq would be limited and that he did not want and all out war and Russia's military drills on the border with Ukraine coming to an and.
Traders here also said that while investors were still keeping a cautious eye on the situation between Israel and Gaza during another ceasefire, the U.S. dollar rising to 102.15 yen on Monday afternoon, compared with 102.06 yen logged in New York late Friday, sent investors chasing after assets deemed oversold last week.
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Investrust CEO Hiroyuki Fukunaga said that, "the dollar's recovery to the 102 yen mark is a critical factor to the bargain- buying we're seeing today. He added that, "more meaningful gains will depend on favorable reception of the government's economic growth plan and, of course, a sharp increase in the GPIF's ( Government Pension Investment Fund) allocation to domestic stocks, which will almost certainly carry a positive 'fallout effect' on other investors."
Other investors concurred saying that the news last week that the GPIF nike air force 1 blanche mid pas cher , Japan's biggest pension fund, plans to increase its holdings of domestic stock to more than 20 percent from its current 12 percent, ahead of median analysts' expectations for spending to increase the fund's holding to exactly 20 percent, continued to invigorate the market.
Shoji Hirakawa, a chief equity strategist at Okasan Securities Co. said that, "the report is a surprise for the market in that they are going to increase stock holdings sooner."
With the weaker yen boosting exporters' overseas profits and competitiveness nike air force 1 blanche pas cher , their related issues found favor Monday, and Honda Motor accelerated 1.3 percent to 3,455 yen, while Nissan Motor advanced 1.2 percent to 981 yen.
Camera maker Nikon climbed 1.39 percent to 1,455 yen, despite plunging at the end of last week following disappointing quarterly profit results.
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Mitsui Mining also attracted buying, leaping 7.4 percent to 305 yen, after announcing its net income forecast had climbed 14 percent to 17.1 billion yen, ahead of analysts' estimates for 16. 3 billion yen.
SoftBank added 0.51 percent to 6 www.airforce1-pascher.fr ,836 yen, despite announcing Friday its Q1 profit had slumped almost 70 percent on year, and talks to acquire the U.S.'s T-mobile through its U.S. Sprint unit had been shelved due to regulatory issues.
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