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...political exchange between the two Koreas and their neighbors. As an academic venture, the Early Korea Project stands to offer much to those interested in the nuances of Korean history. Due to repeated invasions by its neighbors, Korean culture is missing portions of its historical heritage. Even before the Mongol invasions of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, or the Japanese invasions of the later years, Korea had already witnessed much war with its Chinese neighbors to the north . This history of conflict had an unfortunate and devastating effect on the preservation of important national treasures—including many secrets...
...alley outside, all is silence. "It's hard to believe we are in the center of a city of 15 million, isn't it?" she says. Hers is a traditional, single-story courtyard home in one of the city's ancient hutongs, the lanes that the city's Mongol designers intended as the heart of the metropolis when they planned it in 1272. There were once 6,000 hutongs in Beijing, but the tidal wave of change that has accompanied the city's explosive growth over the last two decades has swept most away. Today, fewer than 1,000 remain...
...fare back. And maybe not nicely. It turns out, Mongolia's favorite son was a rather militant environmentalist, whose code of law called for the death of anyone who messed with the verdant grasslands stretching across the steppes of inner Asia - the vast ecosystem that sustained his Mongol tribes and served as natural superhighways for his horseback armies...
...light, but the scope of the corruption problem was underscored last year when Beijing's deputy mayor Liu Zhihua was arrested for what the official media described as "corruption and degeneracy." As a consequence of the rebuilding, a medieval city largely unchanged since it was formally laid out by Mongol conquerors as the capital of the new Yuan dynasty in 1267 has all but disappeared. Until the 1990s, the hutongs had been virtually untouched. Now only about 1,000 of some 6,000 remain...
...were lit from behind, is common to the most persuasive of the photographs. These works carry the exhibition and instill a sense of mild but persistent wonderment.“Merchant’s family and young bride” (1923) is another captivating photograph. Four members of a Mongol family appear dressed in their finest pose outdoors, the young bride rearmost in a 2-by-2 formation. While the other faces are rendered in a murky orange-brown, hers is painted with snow-white makeup and cherry-red lipstick. Together with a shimmering light blue jacket, her brilliant image...