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18:30 Program
19:30 Q and A
19:45 Program ends

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The Sanxingdui site (c. 2500–900 BCE), located about 40 km north of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China, has been the focus of some of the most exciting archaeological works being done in China over the past three decades. The discovery of thousands of objects made from bronze, gold, and jade fascinated scholars and the public worldwide.

This lecture introduces the four fascinating facets of the Sanxingdui culture: its art, urban life, spiritual world, and its origin and development. By applying the theory of gaze, this lecture will critically and contextually examine the almost ubiquitous recurrence of different eye elements among the Sanxingdui objects.

Dr. Tianlong Jiao received his Ph. D. from Harvard University. His research specialty is early Chinese art and archaeology. Prior to his appointment as the Head Curator at the Hong Kong Palace Museum, he was the Curator of Asian Art at the Denver Art Museum, the Head and Curator of Chinese Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Chief Curator of Hong Kong Maritime Museum, the Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Bishop Museum. He also served as faculty or visiting professors at University of Hawaii-Manoa, Xiamen University, Chinese University of Science and Technology and Shandong University. He has authored/co-authored seven books and more than one hundred research papers both in Chinese and in English. His book The Neolithic of Southeast China (Cambria Press 2007) was the winner of the 2007 Philip and Eugenia Cho Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Asian Studies.

S. Alice Mong (Moderator) became executive director of Asia Society Hong Kong Center in 2012. She was previously based in New York for almost a decade in the non-profit sector, as director of the Museum of Chinese in America and executive director of the Committee of 100, a Chinese-American non-profit membership organization. Ms. Mong began her career at the Ohio Department of Development, and later became managing director of the Ohio Office of East and Southeast Asia based in Hong Kong. She also worked for Hang Lung Property Group.

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