Step back to the Ming Dynasty in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

From: Asian Pages | Date: August 31, 1998 | Copyright information

Asian Pages
08-31-1998
Step back to the Ming Dynasty in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts new Asian Galleries opening August 22

Let's step back in time to the year 1600. China is nearing the end of the Ming Dynasty. Its population has grown to 250 million (about the size of the U.S.A. today). Catholic missionaries have brought Christianity to this land of Neo-Confucianism, Buddhism and popular Daoism. Chinese citizens are trying tobacco for the first time, and adjusting to the new tastes of potatoes, peanuts and corn brought to them from the New World by Spanish and Portuguese traders. ...

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