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Occasional Papers (vol. 1, No. 1) of the Freer Gallery of Art (Smithsonian Institution) is devoted to a description of the tomb of the Grand Empress Dowager Wen Ming and the Northern Wei necropolis at Fang Shan. The author (A. G. Wenley) has produced an interesting little work of some 28 pages with six full-page photographs of the site. It starts with a short account of the Empress Dowager herself, followed by a description of the necropolis and tomb where she is buried. The work itself is dedicated to the late Carl Whiting Bishop, who was associated with the Freer Gallery for twenty years and who was much interested in certain Northern Wei dynasty imperial mausolea.
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Archæological Work in China. Nature 160, 462 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160462c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160462c0