Sit in China: An Excursion Through 500 Years of the Culture of Sitting/ Ein Streifzug durch 500 jahre Kultur des Sitzens

The way we sit simultaneously defines privileges, social status, power, and taboos. Parallel to the presentation of China as the guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt presents a panorama of Chinese sitting culture through a period of five centuries.