Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art

by Lothar Ledderose

Book Overview

A richly illustrated look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized parts Chinese workers in the third century BC created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century AD, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China exported...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691006695
• ISBN13: 9780691006697
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"