West Lake Exposition

The West Lake Exposition was a world's fair held in 1929 around West Lake in Hangzhou (then usually spelled Hangchow), the capital of Zhejiang Province in eastern China. The event opened on 6 June 1929 and lasted 137 days.^[1][2] There were 14,760,000 items on display to the event's 20,000,000 visitors.^[1]

1929 West Lake Exposition
Overview
BIE-class	Unrecognized exposition
Name	1929 West Lake Exposition
Visitors	20,000,000
Location
Country	Republic of China
City	Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Timeline
Opening	6 June 1929
Closure	10 October 1929

West Lake Exposition
Traditional Chinese	西湖博覽會
Simplified Chinese	西湖博览会
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xīhú Bólǎnhuì Wade–Giles Hsi-hu Po-lan-hui

The main architect and designer was Liu Jipiao, who devoted six months to organizing and creating the Expo. Having studied art and architecture at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France, he hoped that bringing western art and culture to the Chinese masses would help strengthen and modernize China.

See also

• Warlord Era
• Nanyang Industrial Exposition
• History of the Shanghai Expo