Category: Qin-Han
What if it's a fake? What if it isn't?
Jeremiah Jenne pointed me to this most wonderful bit of French nonsense: Jean Levi’s claim that the terracotta army is a modern forgery. These famous clay...
Monumental Histories
Quite by coincidence, I ended up reading three books on Chinese monuments, but not until the third did I realize that what I was reading was a history of modern...
Weird Orientalism
The kids and I have been playing a game called Great Wall of China, which is a German board game1 (actually a card game) designed by Reiner Knizia, who judging ...
Student Protests in Han China
June is the month to blog about student protests in China. There have been a lot of them, and like other types of protesters Chinese students often consciously ...
Male and female lightly engaged in erotic excess
The behavior of the people, the cosmic order, and the stability of the state were all linked in traditional Chinese political theory. Disorder in one would lead...