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Powers, Martin J.,

Pattern and Person : Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China / Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China Martin J. Powers. - 1 online resource. - Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 262 Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004407077 . - Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 262. Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004407077. .

Preliminary Material -- Graphic Patterns and Social Order -- Style -- Terms of Craft -- Abstraction -- Craft -- Government -- Labor, Invention, and "Taste" -- Craft and Political Theory -- Ornament and Identity -- Bureaucracy and Agency -- The Politics of Personhood -- Patterns, Pictures, and Fractals -- The Laws of Nature -- Nature and Society -- Identity and Possession -- Sources of Self -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN: 9781684174294 9780674021396

Standard No.: 10.1163/9781684174294 DOI

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Decoration and ornament--History--Themes, motives.--China--Qin-Han dynasties, 221 BC-220 AD
Decoration and ornament--History--Themes, motives.--China--To 221 BC
Decorative arts--Social aspects--China.
Self-perception in art.

LC Class. No.: NK1483.A1

Dewey Class. No.: 745.095109014