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Pattern and person: ornament, society, and self in classical China

Martin Joseph Powers
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Illustrations (page xv)
  • Introduction: Graphic Patterns and Social Order (page 1)
  • Chapter 1: Style (page 23)
  • Chapter 2: Terms of Craft (page 47)
  • Chapter 3: Abstraction (page 65)
  • Chapter 4: Craft (page 83)
  • Chapter 5: Government (page 99)
  • Chapter 6: Labor, Invention, and "Taste" (page 111)
  • Chapter 7: Craft and Political Theory (page 137)
  • Chapter 8: Ornament and Identity (page 160)
  • Chapter 9: Bureaucracy and Agency (page 188)
  • Chapter 10: The Politics of Personhood (page 210)
  • Chapter 11: Patterns, Pictures, and Fractals (page 227)
  • Chapter 12: The Laws of Nature (page 253)
  • Chapter 13: Nature and Society (page 270)
  • Chapter 14: Identity and Possession (page 297)
  • Epilogue: Sources of Self (page 309)
  • Reference Matter
    • Notes (page 321)
    • Bibliography (page 355)
    • Index (page 369)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAS 68.1 (Feb. 2009): 277-278 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20619695
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Published: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Copyright Holder: Harvard University Asia Center
ISBN(s)
  • 9781684174294 (ebook)
  • 9780674021396 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Asian: China and Inner Asia
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