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Although little-known in the west, China’s Jiangnan region has played a pivotal role in thousands of years of the country’s history.
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China’s Southern Paradise offers audiences an important opportunity to see sides of China rarely seen in the west. “China is not just one entity, in terms of climate, geography, language, ethnicity,” said Von Spee.
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The show travels all the way back to Neolithic times to exhibit grains of rice recovered from Tianluoshan, an ancient site that was discovered in the early 2000s, and that scientists believe was inhabited as far back at 7,000BC. Believed to be among the first rice cultivated anywhere on Earth
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From the stone age forward, China’s Southern Paradise covers multiple eras of Jiangnan’s history, corresponding with waves of migration that hit the region. Highlights include a rubbing of the Eulogy for Burying a Crane, an inscription in rock that dates to 6th century AD, and that has come to be known as one of the foremost masterpieces of Chinese calligraphy. It has inspired countless scholars to try to understand its eccentric memorial to the death of a beloved crane.

Only anthropocentrists would have trouble understanding something so self-explanatory. Here is also a wuxia song about cranes:

Von Spee said she hopes shows such as China’s Southern Paradise will help to reduce tensions between China and the United States.

I hope so too! See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/china-and-united-states-relations/

Continuing:

Especially now, as the US and China have a strained relationship, culture is our resource to transcend this tension. There’s nothing better than having an exhibition that counters biased ideas.

Such as the uniquely Western absurdity of classifying bloodlines of Hainan as "Mongoloid":