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Celebrating All Things Tang and Asia Society

(Left to right) Oscar Tang, Tang Dynasty Ball Co-Chair; Agnes Hsu-Tang, Tang Dynasty Ball Co-Chair; Her Royal Highness Princess Jeet Nabha Khemka; and Nand Khemka.
(Left to right) Shayne Doty, Asia Society; Ann Ziff; and Sana Sabbagh.
(Left to right) Henry H. Arnhold; Agnes Hsu-Tang, Tang Dynasty Ball Co-Chair; and Oscar Tang, Tang Dynasty Ball Co-Chair.
Sarina Tang and Cynthia Hazen Polsky.
(Left to right)  Shayne Doty, Asia Society; Saina, Richemont/Montblanc; Vanessa Noel; and Prince Dimitri Karageorgevich.
Lieba Nesis and Phylicia Rashad.
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Asia Society celebrated its groundbreaking spring exhibition, Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia, with a dazzling Tang Dynasty Ball co-chaired by Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang. Guests took a musical and culinary journey reflecting the maritime Silk Route that connected northern China to present-day Iran and Iraq.

Guests were treated to an early Tang Dynasty musical performance from the Siong Leng Musical Association, who were in town for their first-ever performance in the United States. Siong Leng was founded to promote and preserve ancient Nanyin music from southern Fujian Province. The evening ended with dessert and dancing to swinging jazz from the George Gee Orchestra in the Garden Court, a nod to the famous 1920s and 1930s jazz clubs of Shanghai.

Secrets of the Sea is the first U.S. exhibition of the remarkable luxury cargo from a ninth-century shipwreck discovered off the coast of Belitung Island in the Java Sea. Bound for present-day Iran and Iraq, it is the earliest ship found in Southeast Asia thus far and provides proof of active maritime trade in the ninth century among China, Southeast Asia, and West Asia.

Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia is co-organized by Asia Society and the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore. Objects are from the Khoo Teck Puat Gallery, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore. The Tang Shipwreck Collection was made possible by the generous donation of the Estate of Khoo Teck Puat in honor of the late Khoo Teck Puat.
 

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