Images & licences
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Xi’an city wall and gate

A bowl of broad noodles

Ranks of Terracotta Warriors in the exhibition hall

The Chess Pavilion among the peaks of Huashan

Camel, 700s. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.147.

Court Lady with High Chignon, c. 700-750. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1983.25.
Cleveland Museum of Art; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund · CC0 1.0

Seated Buddha, 600s. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.18.
Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. John Lyon Collyer in memory of her mother, Mrs. G. M. G. Forman · CC0 1.0