Behind the scenes making history

Source https://threekingdoms.pubpub.org/pub/1a0rbav5/release/2

We often hear about the first landing on the moon as being 'history in the making'. Neil Armstrong's famous step off Apollo 11 and onto the moon's surface in 1969 was a defining moment certainly worthy of making history. However there is a falsehood in the notion that there is only one true version of history, that things happen, get recorded as happening, and that version is the be-all and end-all on the topic. After all, history is constantly changing and ordinary people like you and me make history. We not only make history, we shape it, revise it, redefine it, ignore it, kill it, love it, white-wash it, green-wash it. 

So, what does this have to do with Cao Cao, you might ask?

As you are starting to appreciate, our knowledge of ancient history grows as new archaeological discoveries become unearthed and shed light on the culture, people and places forming the past. Equally, if not more, impressive are the insights brought about by technological advances to inform and shape our current thinking. Educators across multiple disciplines,for example, are using digital technology to represent historical events in new and innovative ways (even cartoons have a role to play)! In the video you will be watching, Dr Emma Teng at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talks about how she and her students depict heros, like Cao Cao, and major events, such as the Battle of Red Cliffs, in the Three Kingdom's period using an array of digital tools to recast and repurpose images of classical traditional art forms against modern cartoons and film clips.

So, not only will you watch 'history in the making', you will also be learning about new developments across a number of fields and how they are translating into new study and career pathways. I hope this video excites you as much as it excites me.

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