Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China

by Jeffrey Moser

How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia.

This book opens in eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document ancient artifacts. As Jeffrey Moser argues, the visual, technical, and conceptual mechanisms they developed to record these objects laid the foundations for methods of visualizing knowledge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022682246X
• ISBN13: 9780226822464
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.2"