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This lecture was given in Montreal in 2017 and previews the final chapter of my forthcoming book, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China<\/a><\/em> (University of Washington Press, 2022).  The talk looks at different imaginings of what might be held in the First Emperor’s unexcavated tomb, by historians, poets, artists, archaeologists, and movie and video game designers. Click Here for the Lectures Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This lecture was given in Montreal in 2017 and previews the final chapter of my forthcoming book, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China (University of Washington Press, 2022).  The talk looks at different imaginings of what might be held in the First Emperor’s unexcavated tomb, by historians, poets, artists, archaeologists, and movie and video […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/ImaginingtheTomb.jpg?fit=720%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdD41Y-hu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":285,"url":"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?p=285","url_meta":{"origin":1084,"position":0},"title":"Listen to Recorded Lectures with Images","author":"barbieri-low@history.ucsb.edu","date":"October 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Barbieri-Low has recorded some of his best classroom and public lectures and posted them to this site for anyone to enjoy. 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