2 May 2006

Beijing 4: Museums, Culture (北京)

In the city's museum I found some interesting artefacts (left pics) some of them more than 30 centuries old. The fine line work on some bronze or copper pots really strikes me (low left), as the meso-american counterparts are very similar. I often wonder if someone has investigated this, to me it seems sure there must have been links between these people..


The pictures in the Arts museum were also very interesting, contemporary, bold. The contradictions of a country come up as we see a farmer daydreaming of rock'n roll, and the extremely hardened and abused miners... . . . .

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