Ten thousand things : module and mass production in Chinese art / Lothar Ledderose.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Chichester, West Sussex : Princeton University Press, 2000.

vi, 266 pages : Grayscale Illustration ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Designed and edited by Brian D. Hotchkiss, Vernon Press, Inc.

Frontispiece Fu Shen (born 1937), Wanwu (Ten Thousand Things), March 1997. Calligraphy.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

This is the forty-sixth volume of the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, which are delivered annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The volumes of lectures constitute Number XXXV in Bollingen Series, sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation.

Composed in Berkeley and Formata by Dix!

Printed and bound by CS Graphics, Singapore.

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