Monks and Bodhisattvas
From the Sui (581-618 CE) and Tang (618-907 CE) Dynasties.…
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Adventures of the Magic Monkey Along the Silk Roads (1983)
by Evelyn Nagai-Berthrong and Anker Odum
Rating: A+
A friend used to loan me this lovely book when I was 12 or 13. I loved reading and re-reading it to the point where I remember asking him if he could just gift it to me for my birthday (he declined). And then Life happened and I grew up and I forgot all about it until around 3 years ago, when I sud…
The Year of the Ox
Kiawak Ashoona, Musk Ox, 1963…
A Cheat’s Hankerchief
This is a silk hankerchief from c.1860 used by one or more people to cheat1 on the Imperial Examinations. Via the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Here are a bunch of Art History Professors discussing this artifact and its history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85gAfiJGpVM They’d use all sorts…
To make sticky rice cake, you must first invent the Universe (youtube.com)
I had no idea how these were made until watching this. The music is annoying.…