Word: warner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hitherto undisclosed Chinese Buddhist chapel of very ancient origin has been discovered by Mr. Langdon Warner, the first American to ever undertake, on behalf of an American university, a search for ancient art in western China. Mr. Warner was formerly Director of the Pennsylvania museum, but is now a member of the Fine Arts Faculty of the University and on the staff of the Fogg Art Museum. He has just returned from a year's trip on foot along the 3000 year old Indo-Chinese route...
...route he discovered a Buddhist chapel dating back to the 5th century A. D. British and French expeditions which were active in China before the war had failed to discover this chapel. It is, with one exception, the westernmost example of North Wei culture. More of its origin Mr, Warner believes can be determined by the interpretation by other authorities at Harvard of a stone slab found nearby and which he brought back with...
...problem to the Chinese in Kansu. Around the Yellow River and Huang Ho, Field Marshal Wu Bel Fu rules with an iron hand, yet he asked me to wait three days before continuing my journey, so that he could warn the bandits to let me alone.PRIZE OF WARNER EXPEDITION BROUGHT FROM WESTERN CHINA Statue, Dating From Ninth Century, of One of Buddha's Attendant Gods...
When the reporter asked Mr. Warner if he had any excitement on his trip, he replied, "Why, the most thrilling adventure I can imagine is to peel off plaster and paint from the wall of a shrine and find these fascinating paintings behind. Of course, most of them mean little to me; an expedition like this would have to have had scholars in every field of science and language, in order to appreciate each 'find" at its true value...
...problem to the Chinese in Kansu. Around the Yellow River and Huang Ho, Field Marshal Wu Bel Fu rules with an iron hand, yet he asked me to wait three days before continuing my journey, so that he could warn the bandits to let me alone.PRIZE OF WARNER EXPEDITION BROUGHT FROM WESTERN CHINA Statue, Dating From Ninth Century, of One of Buddha's Attendant Gods...