Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China by Martin J. Powers

Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China

Martin J. Powers

374 pages first pub 2006 (view editions)

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In Classical China, crafted artifacts offered a material substrate for abstract thought as graphic paradigms for social relationships. Focusing on the fifth to second centuries B.C., Martin Powers explores how these paradigms continued to inform s...

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