On June 26the Terracotta Warriors will be coming to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.
Curated by the museums own Dr. Chen Shen,the showincludes 16 human terracotta figures, a terracotta horse and, yes, a terracotta dog (albeit from the Han period). In total there are about 250 artefacts -making it the largest warriors show ever to come to North America.
Accompanyingtheexhibitionwill be a lecture series, the details of which the museum has just announced.
Therewill be14 lectures in total, allof whichstart at7pm in the Eaton theatre, inside the museum itself.
The price for one lecture is $28, going down to $25 for members and students. Package deals are also available – $84 for four lectures (going down to $75 for members and students). You can even purchase tickets for all 14 lectures.If you want to see them all it costs $252 for non-members and $225 for members and students.
If you want to buy a package I would suggest getting a ROM membership first. An individual membership costs $90 a year and you get free admission, to the museum, year round. Also the museum has said that members can see the Terracotta Warriors show as often as they wish – for free!
Schedule
- June 24- Building Up and Digging Down: New Archaeological Evidence for Construction of the Tomb Complex of the First Emperor
- July 6 – Law and War in the Making of the Chinese Empire
- September 21 – Newest Sources of Early Chinese History: Inscribed Bronze Vessels Recently Discovered
- September 24 – Before the Empire: New Light from Early Qin Archaeology
- September 28 – Art, War and the Afterlife: What Survives the Great Cataclysms and Why?
- October 19 – State Power and Sovereignty: The Success of the First Emperor
- October 21 – Visualizing the Underground World as Conceived by the First Emperor: Archaeological Implications
- October 28 – New light on Xanadu
- November 4 – The Garden of Curious Things: Science and Technology in China at the time of the Terracotta Warriors
- November 11 – Use and abuse: The Qin Dynasty in latter histories
- November 17 – Chinas Ancient Green Revolution
- November 25 – From Terracotta army to Jade Suits: A Golden Age in Chinese history
- December 2 – Battle for an Empire
- December 9 – Writing Fiction about China as a foreigner
Lets look at some of the lecture highlights:
For nearly 20 years Dr. Duan Qingbo has been the chief archaeologist in charge of the First Emperors mausoleum leading the excavation work. His archaeological team has been responsible for the recent major archaeological discoveries at this site, including the stone armour pit, the civil official pit, the acrobat pit, and many others, said the museum in a release. On October 21 Dr. Qingbo will come to Torontoto talk abouthis work. The lecture is in Mandarin but an English translation will be provided.
One lecture Im particularly interested in will be given by Professor Robin Yates of McGill University, who has been studying the laws used in the time of the first emperor. In 1975 legal documents were found buried with a low-ranking Qin official.The museum said in their release thatthese fascinating legal documents are only known by specialists.
Dr. Roberto Ciarla will be talking about Chinese Philosopher Han Fei, who lived 280-233 BC. He lived in the first emperors lifetime but died before the unification of China in 221 BC. Dr. Ciarla will be discussing how his ideas influenced Qin Shi Huang.