British Museum Members Open Evening (3/9/12)

[pling]

Monday evening was the September British Museum Members Open Evening & this was really why we'd come into London that day. We'd booked on the gallery talk about Chinese horses, given by Carol Michaelson, a (partially?) retired curator at the museum. She gave us a 45 minute overview of a vast swathe of Chinese history from prehistoric times

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[magid]

The most recent Guy Gavriel Kay book, Under Heaven is set in ancient China, and involves intrigue around some of those 'heavenly horses'.

[pling]

I think I read that a year or two ago, perhaps - there was a moment during the talk when she was telling us about a rebellion when I suddenly realised that was the real event that the book was a re-telling of.

[magid]

How cool.