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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Cities in China
    part name: Xian
  name:
    name part: Li, Sue Yung
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Sun, Shirley
    role:
      role term: presenter.
  name:
    name part: Durden-Smith, Jo
    name part: 1941-2007
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Documentary films
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 1981
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (58 min.)
  abstract: This wide-ranging documentary -- from the classic three-part "Cities in China Series"--Presents a cultural history of the ancient Chinese imperial city, once the greatest capital in the world and the Eastern terminus of the famed Silk Road. Just outside the city lies one of the world's most spectacular archaeological sites, the burial tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di, who unified the country and connected the Great Wall. The highlight of the film is its extensive and unique footage of his immense underground army vault, which is larger than a football field, and filled with a life-sized pottery army numbering some 6,000 startlingly lifelike warriors, plus horses, chariots, and weapons. Traveling to nearby areas, the film shows many smaller but also impressive sights. A demonstration of calligraphic stone-rubbing illustrates how picture, style, idea, and moral character come together in Chinese writing. Among several other important archaeological sites visited are the majestic tumulus of the Empress Wu, who boldly left her memorial slab blank so it could be filled in by future generations, and the tomb of her granddaughter, the Princess Yung-tai, with its beautiful murals and exquisite glazed figurines in wall niches. Interspersed with these memories of the past are contemporary scenes of the region's ever-pervasive yellow earth and the enduring, perennial life that it sustains.
  target audience: adult
  note: by Sue Yung Li.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed July 07, 2016).
  note: In English.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    geographic: Xi'an Shi (China)
    topic: Description and travel
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    geographic: Chine
    topic: Civilisation
  subject:
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    topic: Travel
  subject:
    geographic: China
  subject:
    geographic: China
    geographic: Xi'an Shi
  classification: 951
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)39952280
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 160707
    record change date: 20241201232926.3
    record identifier: in00005584019
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng