[The China Project] Not just a metaphor: Dragons of imperial China show us how people lived

[The China Project] Not just a metaphor: Dragons of imperial China show us how people lived

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The emperor, as “son of heaven,” was meant to mediate between the
natural and the supernatural. When dragons were becoming visible
to regular folk, as they were in the Yuan and Ming, the
supernatural was bypassing its usual channels — a dangerous
deviation.


Click here to read the article by James Carter.


Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.





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