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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Sichuan Museum: Bronze Gallery

Friday, April 30, 2010

This is one of five albums from this museum. It deals with ancient bronze from Sichuan Province. Artifacts listed as Warring States are from the Ba-Shu Culture. Because bronze is my own area of special interest, and because I want to better show the results of aging, I have uploaded this album with full resolution. [...]

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Sichuan Museum: Han Gallery

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

This is one of five albums from this museum. It deals with Han Dynasty (206 BC to 220 AD) pottery and stone. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China.http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/SichuanMuseumHanGallery#

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Sichuan Museum: Porcelain Gallery

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

This is one of five albums from this museum. It deals with Pottery and Porcelain, except that which is found in the Han Gallery. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China.http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/SichuanMuseumPorcelainGallery#

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Sichuan Museum: Galleries of Buddha Statues from Wanfo Temple & Tibetan Buddhism

Monday, April 26, 2010

This is one of five albums from this museum. I’ve combined two galleries: Gallery of Buddha Statues from Wanfo Temple, and Gallery of Tibetan Buddhism. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, China.http://picasaweb.google.com/GaryLeeTodd/SichuanMuseumGalleriesOfBuddhaStatuesFromWanfoTempleTibetanBuddhism#

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Sichuan Museum: Galleries of Sichuan Crafts, Ethnic Culture, & 20th Century

Monday, April 26, 2010

This is one of five albums from this museum. I’ve combined three galleries: Gallery of Sichuan Crafts, Sichuan Ethnic Culture, and Sichuan in the Twentieth Century. The latter features items from the Long March, which passed through Sichuan in the 1930s. Photos by Gary L. Todd, Ph.D., Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, Henan, [...]

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Dufu’s Thatched Cottage Museum, Chengdu

Monday, April 26, 2010

Dufu was an 8th century Tang Dynasty poet who lived 4 years in Chengdu while fleeing from the An Lushan Rebellion in the north. He built a thatched cottage and wrote many poems at a site which has been honored continuously to the present. In 1991 I visited the traditional site of the cottage. In [...]

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Nanwan Lake & Jigongshan Mountain Resort

Monday, April 19, 2010

Nanwan Lake near Xinyang City in southern Henan was created by a huge dam built in the 1950s. Jigongshan (Rooster Mountain) summer resort has over 200 villas built in many international styles of architecture. Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) built a bunker command center here during one of his encirclement campaigns against the Communists in the [...]

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Xinzheng City Museum

Friday, April 9, 2010

Xinzheng (where I have been living the last 5 years) is the birthplace of Huangdi and the type site for the Peiligang Culture. The artifacts from the tomb of the King of Zheng, discovered in 1923, formed the basis for the Henan Provincial Museum in Zhengzhou, and led to the birth of both modern Chinese [...]

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