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...Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...Among the exhibit's most strikingly bizarre objects is a gilt and silver ewer, which was entombed with Li Xian, a general during the short-lived Northern Zhou dynasty (559-581) in Ningxia. The ewer's shape is typical of the Sasanians who ruled the area that is now Iran, and whose designs the Chinese appropriated for everything from tableware to clothing. But it probably comes from Bactria, in modern-day Afghanistan. And the figures on its surface seem to be characters in the Trojan War. Whoever cast the ewer seems to have been more concerned with style than mythological...
...Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...conscripted into one of Shanghai's 83 "comfort centers." Along with 15 other surviving comfort women from various Asian countries, Zhu joined an ongoing class-action lawsuit against the Japanese government filed in the U.S. in 2000. "Her only wish was to get justice," her son, Zhou Xin, said in a statement to Chinese media after her death...