China 2002: Wim van Binsbergen's visit to the Institute for West Asian and African Studies (IWAAS), Beijing

	China 2002: Wim van Binsbergen's visit to the Institute for West Asian and African Studies (IWAAS), Beijing

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October 2002

visit to the Institute for West Asian and African Studies (IWAAS), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, on behalf of the African Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands, in order to give guest lectures on African ethnicity and African religion, and to discuss further co-operation

Beijing street scene	Wangfujing Dajie shopping mall
the IWAAS building, where the Chinese state administration was housed in the early 20th century, immediately after imperial times
seminar on African ethnicity at IWAAS
Great Wall	White Cloud Temple, Beijing, reinstated headquarters of Daoism in mainland China
Lama Temple, Beijing	Temple of Heaven, Beijing
the Forbidden City, Beijing	Ming tombs

Zhoukoudian (Chou kou Tien) Lower Palaeolithic site (c. 400,000 BP), scene of major Chinese achievements in research; alsoTeilhard de Chardin excavated here

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