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Shang, Chou, Han, T’ang, Sung, Yuan, Ming, Ch’ing—for most Westerners, they stand only as adjectives to describe a lacquer, a bronze, a silk, a watercolor. And for all the familiarity a blue and white porcelain vase from the Ming dynasty or the bright and sturdy pottery figures of horses and... read more
First Sentence
Between the Peking man of the anthropologists and the Beijing man of today there lies a span of some 400,000 years.
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- Bamber Gascoigne (Author)
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