Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road
Biographical note
Adam T. Kessler, Ph.D. (1989) in the Inter-departmental Program for Archaeology, UCLA. He was creator and Curator of the 1994-1997 exhibition Empires Beyond the Great Wall: the Heritage of Genghis Khan (United States, Canada, New Zealand). Since 2000, he has worked as an independent scholar.
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