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New Discoveries: The Liangzhu Culture by Helga Ellemeet

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RAS LECTURE

Tuesday, 2nd February, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.

Mesa-Manifesto 748 Julu Road,

Address in Chinese: 巨鹿路748号梅萨餐厅

Helga Ellemeet

NEW DISCOVERIES: THE LIANGZHU CULTURE

Helga Ellemeet will introduce us to the Liangzhu Culture and will cover some of the discoveries made over the last two decades at the site;  the centre of the Liangzhu Culture, located just north of present-day Hangzhou.

The Liangzhu culture was the last jade culture of the Chinese Neolithic period and lasted from around 3400BC until about 2250BC.

Its influence spread out over a vast region from around Hangzhou up north as far as present Nanjing and northeast towards Jinshan, Songjian and Qingpu close to where we pass our days at the moment.

Recent excavations at Liangzhu make it clear that organizing huge projects, such as an Expo, is in the genes of the Chinese who live in the region of the lower Yangze River today. 5000 years ago their ancestors already showed that they were capable to organize a working force to build a city that was four times the size of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

Excavated artefacts from tombs within this city are proof that the Liangzu society was also highly cultivated both in the material and spiritual field.

Best known for their ritual jades; she will explain how some of the objects were produced and how they possibly related to the people for whom they were made.

Helga Ellemeet, a Dutch Sinologist studied Chinese at Leiden and Xiamen Universities. Later working as a museum guide in Hong Kong and Singapore, she became particularly interested in Song Dynasty ceramics and the Neolithic culture in China.

Entrance: RMB 30 (RAS members) and RMB 80 (non-members) those unable to make the donation but wishing to attend may contact us for exemption, prior to the RAS Lecture. Membership applications and membership renewals will be available at this event.

RSVP: to RAS Enquiry desk enquiry@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn

Many thanks to Mesa-Manifesto for their support