Yunnan was the home of the ancient bronze age Dian Kingdom which produced unique and spectacular artifacts, the most important of which are displayed here. Other artifacts are from the Kingdom of Dali which was contemporary with the Song Dynasty. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, China. http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/YunnanProvincialMuseum#
Kunming was the home of the ancient Dian Culture which produced unique and spectacular bronze artifacts, some of which are displayed here. The bulk of the Dian bronzes are in the Yunnan Provincial Museum. The City Museum also has skeletons of some of Yunnan’s rare and unusual dinosaurs, as well as a sutra pillar and [...]
Kunming was home of the Flying Tigers during WWII. Today it is a clean, modern city with year-round spring climate. This album includes random shots from around town, plus a visit to the city zoo. My main interest was the two historical museums which are featured in separate photo albums. They both contain fabulous bronze [...]
The peony is the national flower, celebrated every year by a festival in Luoyang. Departing from my usual practice of photographing artifacts and historical stuff, I’ve created an album taken from several peony festivals in Luoyang. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, China. http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/LuoyangPeonyFestival#
This is a tomb of a Northern Wei emperor excavated at Luoyang. Nearby some 40 tombs from Henan Province have been reconstructed in a tomb museum. They span over a thousand years from Western Han through N. Song dynasties. The artifacts displayed inside the tombs, of course, are reproductions. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., [...]
Millions of peasants lived in cave homes cut into the sides of hills. Most lie abandoned today, but I found one still occupied in a village near Luoyang, in Henan Province. It belonged to a family which built it some 200 years ago. The matriarch of the family lived into her 90s and was one [...]
I believe that the Sias foreign faculty receive better food and housing than any other foreigners in China. For proof I submit food photos taken from April 2 through April 8, 2009. They include most main courses, but not most of the side dishes like bread, butter, jelly, peanut butter, salad, fruit, yogurt, coffee, cocoa, [...]