In this seasonal special we cover a range of afterlife and ghoulish topics, from joss paper burnings going virtual with the growing awareness of environmental impacts, to Chinese Ouija boards and supernatural beliefs, and of...Read More
For our fourteenth episode, we head to the Sanxingdui archaeological site in Sichuan province with Harvard’s anthropology department professor of archaeology, Rowan Flad.Read More
China holds the largest amount of discovered prehistorical artifacts in the world. But how did the study of archeology in China evolve? Dr. Ye Wa, Professor of Archaeology at UCLA, chatted with us about the...Read More
The study of pottery is important to archaeology in China, perhaps more so than in any other country. Join us for a chat with Professor Tang Huisheng of the Department of Archaeology at Hebei Normal...Read More
The Yuezhi people of Gansu were once nomadic pastoralists who lived in the western grasslands of modern-day Gansu. Join us as we chat with Professor Wang Jianxin of China's Northwest University to understand this 2,000-year-old...Read More
Join us for a special chat with Dr. Ye Wa, Professor of Archaeology at UCLA, to discover one of China’s earliest settlements. Dr. Ye Wa takes us to examine discoveries made at Yuangguanzhai, listed as...Read More
Mei Zhang talks to renowned archaeologist Zhang Jianlin, author of The Land of Secrets - In Search of the Vanished Guge Civilization and distinguished Professor at Northwest University in Xi'an.Read More
Chinese grottoes and ancient cave temples are major landmarks in China. We invited Professor Zhao Chao, former researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, to learn more about them.Read More