... 41 II Ancient Seas People have been floating around for a very long time. By using rudimentary coracles, or skinboats, constructed of branches and animal hides, or rafts made out of reeds, or dugout canoes fashioned from tree trunks, humans have crossed vast distances. Recent discoveries...

... both strong in the south. Then came the rapid economic development of the 1980s, and it was in Wenzhou that Daoism revived especially fast. Master Liu (pseudonym), a Daoist priest in Wenzhou The Dao De Jing The Classic of the Way and Power, is an ancient text said to have been writ- ten by Laozi It...

...II Journeys N k ly azm a r. volga r. Map Area Note - Present day rivers and lakes shown Vladimir Suzdal Aleksandrov Pereslavl-Zalessky Rostov Bogoslov Borisoglebsky 0 0 50 100 km 30 60 mi One · The Ancient Heartland during the thirteen years of Sergey Prokudin- Gorsky s documentary journeys...

...PART I Archaeologies of Moving Image Transmission 1 Ancient Affiliates The Nineteenth- Century Origins of Cinema and Television The study of the early history of television necessitates us to forsake assumptions about linear historical developments, pur- suits of a singular original idea that would...