Quaker traditions and Chinese cultural icons - preview
Phil Dahl explores the parallels
China's economic growth promises to be a significant world influence over coming decades Concerns about human rights in Tibet have been raised again The Sichuan earthquake has brought its people into our hearts The First Emperor exhibition at the British Museum sparked huge interest in China's panoramic history Deep, rich and intriguing, China's culture stretches back well over 5,000-6,000 years Our western fascination is hardly surprising
To grasp such continuity, try this challenge Imagine we still knew the language and belief systems of the builders of the Avebury and Stonehenge ritual complexes Picture that our visual arts drew on their archetypal images, as well as classical symbols Figure a common inheritance that stood in humbling monuments, its cosmology recorded in age-old scripts Rather than seeking the original purposes of a few structures abandoned on bleak moorlands, their experience might have been elaborated over successive generations Such is the character of China's cultural inheritance
Phil Dahl
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