Campus Stories - Rene Yung

Partially reconstructed Double Happiness rice bowl surrounded by shards of Bamboo rice bowls. The names "Double Happiness" and "Bamboo" refer to the very popular painted motifs painted on the bowl.
Campus Stories

Stanford exhibit of San Jose’s lost Chinatown brings archaeology out of the laboratory

Visitors to the Stanford Archaeology Center find modern glass cases filled with fragments of a lost city – wooden toothbrushes and combs, buttons and leather shoes, ceramic bowls and soup spoons. These are the remnants of the once thriving Chinatown community in downtown San José. Today, these archaeological findings populate City Beneath the City, an art installation designed by…

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