Speaker/Performer: Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Art History, University of Delaware
In 1937 researchers from the Society for Research in Chinese Architecture traveled to Shanxi Province to search for a Tang wooden temple in the Buddhist sacred site of Mount Wutai. Were Liang Sicheng and his team really the first to arrive at the temple? A discovery requires an act of uncovering. How, then, did Liang “uncover” a structure that has been standing on Mount Wutai for centuries?
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