At the Anhui Museum in eastern China, a recent exhibition of ancient gold and silver artifacts offered visitors an unusually intimate glimpse into how power, belief and daily life played out -- not ...
The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...
Part I. Journey to the East: -- Learning from unfamiliar cultural traditions. Discovering cultural universals ; Understanding historical uniqueness -- Symbols, styles, and meanings. Symbols ; Styles ; ...