Interview with Tonia Eckfeld, the history of China's Terracotta Warriors
Jun 13, 2019•42 min
Episode description
Tonia Eckfeld on the remarkable history of China's famous Terracotta Warriors from the Qin dynasty (221-207 BCE). The NGV is currently showing several pieces of the terracotta army as part of their Winter Masterpieces exhibition. Tonia was one of the first Western women allowed entry to the excavation site of the terracotta warriors. Professor Tonia Eckfeld is a Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne and a Distinguished Research Fellow at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi’an, China. Broadcast on 11 June, 2019.