Seeing My Hometown's Great Treasures

"Step into the galaxy of civilization's waystations,and feel the pulse of China within these hallowed halls.¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Seeing My Homeland's Great Treasures: Chinese Memories in 22 City Museums curates 22 understated yet treasure-filled museums off the beaten path. From Dingzhou in Hebei and Wuwei in Gansu, to Sanxingdui in Sichuan and the Yin Ruins in Henan - each museum offers up its crown jewel as a guide, retelling the grand narrative of Chinese civilization.Here, the He Zun ritual vessel from Baoji bears the earliest inscribed characters for ""China"" (Zhongguo); the Galloping Horse of Wuwei captures the heroic spirit of the Silk Road; the bamboo slips of Liye reveal the day-to-day governance of a Qin dynasty county; the Shuihudi Qin legal texts from Yunmeng stand as the earliest known ""encyclopedia of law""; and the Tongling copper mine site pushes back China's history of copper mining by three millennia. From oracle bones at Yinxu and bronze masks at Sanxingdui, to jade cong from Liangzhu, a Song-dynasty seagoing ship from Quanzhou, and a giant Tangka from Qinghai - these artifacts span from prehistoric times to the Ming and Qing dynasties, together tracing the genetic map of Chinese civilization.Each chapter also features a special ""Curator's Note,"" in which the museum director personally reveals the fascinating stories behind these national treasures. This book is at once a guide to off-the-radar museums and a warm, living memory of China.¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿22¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿22¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿"¿¿"¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿"¿¿¿¿¿¿"¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿--¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿"¿¿¿"¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿