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  East Asia I  
       
  Pottery from Ban Po, one of the earliest Chinese farm villages in the Yellow River Valley. The original settlement dates back to the sixth millennium B.C.E.  
       
  Model of a Stone Age house at Banpo, in central China. Banpo, located near the modern city of Xian, was settled as early as the sixth millennium B.C.E. and was one of the earliest agricultural sites in China.  
       
  Beginning in the sixteenth century B.C.E., China began to produce some of the world's finest bronze ritual vessels. Eventually, as their ritual importance diminished, they served as daily utensils. Shown here is a sixth century B.C.E ox-shaped wine vessel.  
       
  This earthenware glazed polychrome guardian was placed, along with other figures such as Bactrian camels, horses, officials, servants, musicians, even dancing girls, in a Tang Dynasty grave to accompany the deceased on his journey.  
       
  The main gate to the central city of Beijing, the central portal through which during the traditional era only the emperor and his retinue could pass.  
       
  Mao Zedong's mausoleum in Beijing. The building is located on the central square just in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace, the entrance to the imperial city.  
       
  The imperial throne in the Imperial Palace at Beijing. From here the emperor issued decrees that affected the lives of his millions of subjects.  
       
  An example of China's "sideline industries," this cyclist is carrying a sofa to market in Beijing.  
       
  Chinese tourists climbing over stone figures at the Ming tombs north of Beijing.  
       
  This forbidding lion guards the entrance to the Forbidden City, the imperial residence of Chinese emperors. Construction of the palace was begun in the Ming Dynasty.  
       
  The Big Goose Pagoda in Xian dates back to the eighth century C.E. when the pilgrim Xuan Zang brought back Buddhist texts from India to be housed here.  
       
  Limestone mountains along the Li River near Guilin. Their beauty has inspired generations of Chinese landscape painters.  
       
  Young Chinese enjoy being photographed with the laughing Buddha at a temple in Hangzhou.  
       
  The Chinese garden, such as this example in Hangzhou, was created by the elite as an oasis where they could reflect, write poetry, paint, toast the moon, or even have a romantic rendezvous.  
       
  Serenade of ninth-century B.C.E. bronze bells in Nanjing.  
       
  A long line of heavily laden barges are being pulled by the one in front as it wends its way up the Grand Canal at Wuxi.  
       
  Popular demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in the spring of 1989 People gathered in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace, with its portrait of Chairman Mao, to support demands for reform.  
       
  Chinese clerk napping on the job in the bustling bird market in Nanjing.  
       
  The Bund at Shanghai, the old European section of the city. Most of the buildings were built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and symbolized the height of European colonial power in Asia.  
       
  After the Cultural Revolution, the government began to allow a few Buddhist monasteries, such as this one in Shanghai, to be revived.  
       
   
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