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Along its pathways, merchants freely exchanged both goods and ideas. In terms of its importance to world culture, Folger Fund Professor of History and East Asian historian Andrew D. Gordon ’74 says the development of the Silk Road was a critical cultural landmark: “The Crusades, the Black Plague, the Renaissance—it ranks right up there with all of them...
...talked to some old alumni, and they were astonished” with the administration’s reaction, says Drew Austria, the president of the Asian Student Union at UVa. In particular, Austria says they were particularly impressed by Casteen’s Rotunda speech...
...Henri and channeled his energy toward more lucrative pursuits, helping to found the Banque de Paris. In 1871, appalled by the turmoil of the Paris Commune, a workers' revolution, he took himself and the young art critic Theodore Duret on a world tour, during which he focused on collecting Asian art. Voraciously acquisitive, he was as likely to buy whole collections - even an entire museum - as a single work of art. One of the 5,000 pieces he brought back, a bronze Japanese buddha, was so enormous that he built an elegant Paris residence around it. For years, Cernuschi allowed...
...Often times, Asian Americans in the arts is not shown in the media to the general public. I’m very happy with the outcome,” Hsu said...
Other performances included a hip-hop dance troupe from Wellesley and Harvard’s own Asian American Dance Troupe...