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    <title>Qualla: Pingdingshan Museum</title>
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      <title>Pingdingshan Museum: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A white jade eagle, carved three thousand years ago during the Western Zhou dynasty, stares out from its glass case with an intensity that belies its size. This is one of 1,836 precious artifacts among the more than 51,479 items held by the Pingdingshan Museum, and it captures something essential about this place: Pingdingshan has always sat at a crossroads, a meeting point where northern and southern Chinese civilizations collided, merged, and left behind remarkable things.]]></description>
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      <title>Pingdingshan Museum: Where Dynasties Left Their Mark</title>
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      <title>Pingdingshan Museum: Bronze and the Ying Kingdom</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The museum devotes an entire exhibition to the ancient Ying state, and for good reason. This minor kingdom, often overshadowed by its more powerful neighbors, produced bronzeware of startling sophistication. The Ying bronzes on display reveal a culture that absorbed influences fr...]]></description>
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      <title>Pingdingshan Museum: The Porcelain Legacy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Among the museum's most celebrated holdings are its ceramics from the Tang and Song dynasties, including examples of Luoyang Flower Porcelain and Jia County Jun Porcelain. The region around Pingdingshan was home to kilns that produced some of China's most admired wares, and the m...]]></description>
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      <title>Pingdingshan Museum: A Cultural Frontier</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most revealing exhibition explores the interaction between the Central Plains culture and the Chu state during the Warring States period. Pingdingshan lies near the historical boundary where these two great cultural spheres met, and the artifacts on display show how i...]]></description>
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