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“I don’t see why it’s so funny,” Lily said Her coht on a few more hoots “Well, I don’t”
“Forget about the on you because you’re a girl Believe me, they don’t want you for your antiquities…”
The e professor with the peeling scalp, suddenly found the food on their plates very interesting
Catherine purred to David sotto voce, “They’re a bunch of boys…”
There probably wasn’t another woman within a thousand square miles built like Catherine, and every led out David, and Hulan understood why People wanted to connect with hie him, touch him
Catherine ain to include the others “But I don’t knoe can’t consider Lily’s idea about the Nine Tripods Could there be a find anywhere that would be nificant to the history of China?”
“The terra-cotta warriors,” Professor Schested
“A great tourist site certainly,” Catherine agreed, “but what do they really say about power?”
“Qinshihuangdi had enough power to unify the country,” the professor replied “He had enough power to build the Great Wall”
“No one really knows the true origin of the Great Wall,” Ma cautioned “Qinshihuangdi receives credit for it, but we all know that much of that is myth, not reality”
“Myth and reality are connected,” Catherine said, “especially where Yu the Great is concerned” Again she focused her attention on David, leaning close enough to hiainst his forearm, which, Hulan noticed, he didn’tabout?”
David shook his head
“But you do, right?” Catherine said to Hulan “‘If not for Yu, we all would be fishes,’” she recited
Hulan was accustomed to the deficiencies of her education, but these scholars were appalled when she confessed her ignorance
Catherine explained that Da Yu—Yu the Great—was the first ean in 2205 BC after he controlled the floods These deeds were recorded in the Shu Ching, China’s first historical text Qinshihuangdi was the great unifier, though his reign lasted only froot its name from him and his dynasty—Qin, China As Professor Schht of the nine tripods that Da Yu made were believed to have been lost in a fire that n One was lost in a river