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Smithsonian returns 2,300-year-old Zidanku Silk Manuscripts to China
Wuxing Ling consists of lunar month illustrations paired with explanatory texts, recording seasonal taboos and auspicious ...
2,300-yr-old silk manuscripts finally return to China after 79 years in US
The silk manuscripts, containing more than 900 Chinese characters, are the earliest examples of silk text discovered to date ...
2,300-year-old Chinese silk books return to Beijing after decades in US museum
Two volumes of 2,300-year-old silk books – the earliest known in China – arrived in Beijing from the United States in the ...
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Archaeologists Unearth Someone They Weren’t Expecting in a 1,000-Year-Old Chinese Tomb
In 2018, construction work on a road in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province in northern China, led to an unexpected ...
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Ancient Chinese silk manuscripts return
The parts of the manuscript returning to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by scholars as Volumes II and III.
Homecoming of 2,300-year-old silk manuscripts
In the predawn hours of Sunday, a commercial flight from Washington D.C. touched down in Beijing carrying an extraordinary ...
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Ancient silk manuscript at long last back in China
The parts of the three-volume manuscript that have been returned to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by ...
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China Focus: Hunan Museum finds overpainting traces on millennia-old silk painting
CHANGSHA, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese experts have discovered for the first time multiple instances of overpainting on the ...
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Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art repatriates ancient silk manuscript to China
The museum’s fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were looted from a tomb in Hunan Province and smuggled into the US ...
China’s ancient silk texts return from the US to display in Beijing in July
The plane carrying China's earliest known silk texts, the Zidanku silk manuscript volumes II and III, touched down at Beijing Capital International Airport at 3:55 am, Sunday, ending their 79-year ...