For a long time I used to call Han Dynasty on Third Avenue to order takeout. In those days I didn’t know one dynasty from another so I’d always forget the name, and would google ‘chinese restaurant dynasty third avenue’ to get it to come up. Eventually I learned the basics of the periodization of Chinese history, in order to teach survey courses, but it was too late—by the time the name registered in a way that would stop me from forgetting it, Han Dynasty had fallen off my takeout radar. I haven’t had my old order, the cumin tofu, in years. It’s probably still good.
Quite a romp through the Penn Museum collection. There's a typo in the paragraph near the end that starts "Incantation bowls." Looks like you changed something without deleting what was no longer necessary.
There were so many comments I could have made while reading it but then of course forget them.
The bowls looked familiar. Did you post them on IG? They remind me a bit of the Islamic bowls with their sayings, but those are for eating & then one gets to discover the piece of advice after all the food is gone.
Marvellous. I love museum visits, even someone else's. On the subject of C.T. Loo, I sought out his famous house in Paris in 2018 and took some photos of the striking exterior. Unfortunately, the interior can't be visited unless you get yourself invited to a function that it's been rented for. It must have been something to see when it functioned as his home and gallery. Thanks for the tip on Lenain's book; I'll look for it.
Quite a romp through the Penn Museum collection. There's a typo in the paragraph near the end that starts "Incantation bowls." Looks like you changed something without deleting what was no longer necessary.
There were so many comments I could have made while reading it but then of course forget them.
The bowls looked familiar. Did you post them on IG? They remind me a bit of the Islamic bowls with their sayings, but those are for eating & then one gets to discover the piece of advice after all the food is gone.
Marvellous. I love museum visits, even someone else's. On the subject of C.T. Loo, I sought out his famous house in Paris in 2018 and took some photos of the striking exterior. Unfortunately, the interior can't be visited unless you get yourself invited to a function that it's been rented for. It must have been something to see when it functioned as his home and gallery. Thanks for the tip on Lenain's book; I'll look for it.
oh yes I didn’t even get to the house, so much to say about him. the linked Asia Society lecture is fantastic