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New archeological discoveries keep history in a continuous state of flux. Often, these discoveries fill gaps in our understanding of a particular culture. Such is the case with the more than 200 objects in “Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China’s Liao Empire (907–1125),” which opens Thursday at Asia Society. On view for the first time outside of China, these artifacts — primarily excavated within the past 20 years and from four burial sites in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region — blow apart the previous notion that the Liao were an unsophisticated, even barbaric people. That was an assumption perhaps fueled as much by the absence of these historical items as by the cultural snobbery of subsequent Chinese dynasties.
New archeological discoveries keep history in a continuous state of flux. Often, these discoveries fill gaps in our understanding of a particular culture. Such is the case with the more than 200 objects in “Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China’s Liao Empire (907–1125),” which opens Thursday at Asia Society. On view for the first time outside of China, these artifacts — primarily excavated within the past 20 years and from four burial sites in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region — blow apart the previous notion that the Liao were an unsophisticated, even barbaric people. That was an assumption perhaps fueled as much by the absence of these historical items as by the cultural snobbery of subsequent Chinese dynasties.
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