In the eyes of those looking in from the outside, archaeology is a rather romantic subject, conjuring up movie-like images of adventurous imperial tomb excavations and explorations. But in the eyes of archaeologists, the discipline is one involving much disappointment and exasperation: Once ancient objects were buried in the ground, they were buried by time.
More than half a century of studying China, its history and present, has given rise to a love in the German sinologist for humanity of China, which kindles his optimism to further cultivate the humanistic legacy of peoples towards the basis for a shared future
