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Art Politics - a Cultural Diplomacy Fund: the Fund for the Cultural Preservation of Tibet and the Promotion of Chinese Culture.

Article from: China Weekly News Article date: October 28, 2008

On the closing day of the 2008 Global Creative Leadership Summit [23/09/08], the Louise Blouin Foundation announced a new cultural diplomacy fund: The Fund for the Cultural Preservation of Tibet and the Promotion of Chinese Culture. The mission of the fund is to complement the already existing cultural preservation efforts in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) by the Chinese Government, as well as to promote both Chinese culture and dialogue between the West and China. This platform, administered by the Louise Blouin Foundation, ...

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