Bbc Podcasts: Episode 39: Admonitions Scroll 27 May 2010

Chinese scroll with advice for palace ladies on correct behavior. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, explores this eleven foot painting based on a poem, which attempted to define the proper behavior for women during the tumultuous time that followed the collapse of the Han Empire. He tells the story of the scroll and finds out what it is was about women's behavior that was so worrying men of the period. (Duration: 15 mins)