Mythical Motifs of the Chinese Bronze Age
Have you ever wondered why Chinese visual culture is full of images of dragons, phoenixes and other mythical creatures? Archaeologists certainly have. For centuries, they searched in vain for their origins in the country’s vast but fractured archeological record. Relatively recent discoveries of artifacts from the Zhou dynasty, an ancient state that predates the Qin […]
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