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Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia
Asia Society hosts a keynote address by scholar Regina Krahl on the eve of a daylong symposium co-organized with Columbia University. This landmark symposium represents the first academic gathering in the United States to present a comprehensive review of the cargo of the Belitung shipwreck and the maritime trade routes of the ninth century with a view to broadening the understanding of the profound cultural significance of the find.
Where
- Bryan Averbuch, CUNY
- Dora Ching, P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University (moderator)
- John Guy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Derek Heng, Northern Arizona University and the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Center, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore)
- François Louis, Bard Graduate Center
- Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania
- Adriana Proser, Asia Society Museum, New York (moderator)
- Liu Yang, The Minneapolis Institute of Art
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