CHINA TERRACOTTA MUSEUM FEATURE
May 1st, 2006
BY MARK ROWE, in Xian, China
THE FACE that China's museum sector presents to the world might have looked very different had a farm labourer chosen another part of a remote field near the city of Xian in 1974 to dig a well. Depending on which version you hear, his shovel either jarred against the head of a clay soldier or he simply yanked a broken leg up out of the ground.
More than 30 years, and 40 million visitors later, the Terracotta Warrior Museum has become one of China's major tourist attractions, inspiring museums across the country to modernise and open ...
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