art, china history, culture, emperor, terracotta warriors

Terracotta Warriors Guarding Immortality Exhibition

The feature exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne is the Terracotta Warriors and Cai Guo-Qiang, combining ancient Chinese artifacts with brilliant artwork by Cai Guo-Qiang. All the tomb warriors are individually made and when you take a closer look at each one, you can see each one displays its own personality. ...

Trisha Haddock

A terracotta archer.

U.S. Ambassador to China, John Leighton Stuart (Part III)

After the Chinese communists ousted Chiang Kai-shek’s National Government, Ambassador John Leighton Stuart returned to the U.S. where he visited U.S. Senators and encouraged them to advise the Truman administration to help salvage the situation in China. He returned to the Presbyterian Church to deliver a public speech. In his speech, he mentioned China’s internal ...

Helen London

John Leighton Stuart.

U.S. Ambassador to China, John Leighton Stuart (Part II)

After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the War of Resistance against Japanese aggression, the Japanese army took over the entire northern part of China. The Japanese authorities sent personnel to persuade Stuart to include Japanese professors at Yanjing University in the Senate and to accept the Japanese government’s financial allowances. John Leighton ...

Helen London

John Leighton Stuart.