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Compound. Exams. A Ming portrait, now in the Nanjing Museum, of the official Jiang Shunfu (1453–1504). The decoration of two cranes on his chest indicates that he was a civil official of the first rank. .

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  1. Compound

  2. Exams • A Ming portrait, now in the Nanjing Museum, of the official Jiang Shunfu (1453–1504). The decoration of two cranes on his chest indicates that he was a civil official of the first rank.

  3. From 605 until 1905 the Imperial Examination system determined who would enter the Chinese civil service. Examination cells, Guangdong, 1873

  4. Peasant Farmer

  5. In 2004,the Shanghai Museum put together an exhibit of coins from places along the old Silk Roads. These coins reflect the areas they came from in both language and designs.

  6. Zhou Imperial Cast Coins770-256 BCEChinese cast bronze coins in a spade form with a hollow handle emerged no later than the Spring & Autumn period (770-476 BCE) The Zhou royal family cast & used flat or hollow handled spade coins until the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE) Then they began to cast square footed spade coins

  7. Jin Coinscast bronze

  8. Soldiers • Make a man out of you.

  9. Women Ming dynasty (1400's AD) painting by Tang Yin In theSung Dynasty, about 1100 AD, a fashion started at the emperor's court for women to bind their feet. Women 

  10. Late Shang bronze pitcher from Henan, about 1100 BC, with inscription(Musee Guimet, Paris)

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