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The New York Times
How the Upper Crust Lived, and Died, in Early China
By KEN JOHNSON
Published: April 9, 2009
They say you can’t take it with you, but in certain times and places people thought otherwise, and they stocked the tombs of their most illustrious citizens with everything they would need in the next world: clothing, food, money, reading material, pets and even live servants. We don’t know if this was helpful for the intended beneficiaries, but the effective preservation of much art and material culture has been a great boon for modern scholars of ancient civilizations.
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Archaeology
Digging Up China’s Best Exhibitions
BY ETI BONN-MULLER
Published: February 12, 2009
Willow Weilan Hai Chang is the director of the China Institute Gallery in New York City, where she has spent nearly a decade organizing a wide variety of exhibitions, ranging from imperial calligraphy to contemporary photography. She has also been instrumental over the years in introducing American audiences to hundreds of China’s greatest and rarest archaeological discoveries. Formally trained as an archaeologist, she is at the same time incredibly brilliant and completely unassuming. Amid a flurry of preparations for the opening of the landmark show, Noble Tombs at Mawangdui: Art and Life in the Changsha Kingdom, Third Century BCE to First Century CE, she spoke with ARCHAEOLOGY’s managing editor, Eti Bonn-Muller, about why she choose an unconventional major (for a nice young lady, that is), what it was like to unearth evidence for the origin of rice cultivation in China, and how she brings her passion for the ancient world to life on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
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GeographyThe significance of physical place that spatially situates the exhibition's content |
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 HistoryThe significance of historical and political periodization that temporally situates the exhibition's content |
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 Culture and PeopleHuman behaviors, beliefs, and customs that inform the exhibition's content |
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 Material CultureWhat the physical objects in the exhibit reveal about the socio-cultural identity of the objects' producers and possessors |
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 AppreciationHow the exhibition's content is theoretically, economically, and morally appreciated |