An exhibition exploring early Chinese civilization opened at the Minsheng Art Museum in Beijing.on September 28.It presents the cultures of 13 major heritage sites in China,including Yangshao,known for its painted pot...
Dashe,my grandmother’s home,has evolved into a popular destination.The village,with a history of about 700 years,is also the hometown of Chen Jiageng.Built in 1343,the Chen family’s ancestral hall(宗祠)was rebuilt b...
In 1999 German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk provoked a scandal with his speech Regeln für den Menschenpark in which he referred to Plato’s Republic to define rules for the“zoo for humans”(instead of the commonly u...
The exact dating of Laozi and his work has long been a topic of scholarly interest.Since the 1920s,traditional views on Laozi’s dating have been widely questioned in both Chinese and Western academia.In the latter ha...
Botticelli’s Minerva and the Centaur of 1482-1483,along with his other mythological paintings,the Primavera,the Birth of Venus,and Mars and Venus,remains an iconographical mystery.As such,it is particularly interesti...
"Make the past serve the present!"Thus goes Mao Zedong's slogan on how to appropriate the ancient in revolutionary times.In my previous studies,I have argued that the Chinese writers,engagement with the an cient gave ...
One of the great enigmas of human history is how the Eastern or later Han dynasty of China,which ran from around 25CE to 220CE,and that of the Roman Empire from the era of Augustus from 27BCE to that of Constantine th...
This paper examines the early Byzantine bronze lamp found in Southeast Asia(Pong Tuk,Thailand)and in southern China that documented in Yin Ju’s ode in 281 C.E.Basing on these archaeological and written evidences,the ...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, 304 pp., $45.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780691169392.Peter T. Struck's book is an excellent contribution to emerging accounts of divination and, I would suggest, to the pro...
This article examines the presence and uses of plants attested in the Chinese medical tradition in the materia medica literature of classical antiquity.It is based on the consultation of the major ancient compilations...