{"id":104,"date":"2018-12-14T03:43:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/gandharanreliefsfinalproject\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2018-12-18T15:07:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:07:53","slug":"history-and-heritage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/gandharanreliefsfinalproject\/history-and-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"History and Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-59\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/gandharanreliefsfinalproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/503\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-06-at-1.26.58-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"302\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asia Society, New York City, circa 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Asia Society was established in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller the third as a vessel by which to \u201cpromote greater knowledge of Asia in the United States.\u201d<sup>1<\/sup>In the modern day, the Society has fulfilled this mission through the promotion of a global partnership \u201camong peoples, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context\u201d, including the operation of several offices throughout the US and Asia dedicated to addressing issues related to globalization and political tension.<sup>1<\/sup>The museum in New York is especially notable as a gathering place of history, playing host to a variety of traveling exhibitions and in house programs over the years. From <em>The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India <\/em>to <em>The Arts of Kashmir, <\/em>the museum\u2019s programs are unique and structured to reflect a distinctly varied view of Asian culture<em>. <\/em>The Asia Society\u2019s dedication to global representation also sets it apart from other contemporary museums as a place not only equipped to foster knowledge, but to present a more accurate view of the peoples and nations surrounding Asian artefacts and their complex relationships to their own cultures, governments, and religions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u201cMission &amp; History.\u201d Asia Society.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asia Society was established in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller the third as a vessel by which to \u201cpromote greater knowledge of Asia in the United States.\u201d1In the modern day, the Society has fulfilled this mission through the promotion of a global partnership \u201camong peoples, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context\u201d, including the operation of several offices throughout the US and Asia dedicated to addressing issues related to globalization and political tension.1The museum in New York is especially notable as a gathering place of history, playing host to a variety of traveling exhibitions and in house programs over the years. From The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India to The Arts of Kashmir, the museum\u2019s programs are unique and structured to reflect a distinctly varied view of Asian culture. The Asia Society\u2019s dedication to global representation also sets it apart from other contemporary museums as a place not only equipped to foster knowledge, but to present a more accurate view of the peoples and nations surrounding Asian artefacts and their complex relationships to their own cultures, governments, and religions. &nbsp; \u201cMission &amp; History.\u201d Asia Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1064,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/gandharanreliefsfinalproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/gandharanreliefsfinalproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/gandharanreliefsfinalproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/gandharanreliefsfinalproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/gandharanreliefsfinalproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/gandharanreliefsfinalproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/gandharanreliefsfinalproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/gandharanreliefsfinalproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}