Metalworking in Bronze Age China

Metalworking in Bronze Age China
Author: Peng Peng
Publisher:
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Release: 2019
Genre: Bronze founding
ISBN: 9781621964803


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"This is the first study that adopts a comprehensive, thorough, and interdisciplinary approach toward early Chinese lost-wax castings. With more than 80 images, this book provides a study on the "norms," which are seldom questioned. By examining the reasons why Chinese founders often chose not to use the lost-wax process they had clearly mastered, the book refutes the idea that lost-wax technology is the only "right way" to cast bronzes. This study demonstrates that a "norm" is in many ways an illusion that twists our comprehension of art, technology, civilization, and history"--


Metalworking in Bronze Age China
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Peng Peng
Categories: Bronze founding
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

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"This is the first study that adopts a comprehensive, thorough, and interdisciplinary approach toward early Chinese lost-wax castings. With more than 80 images,
The Beginnings of Metallurgy in China
Language: en
Pages: 474
Authors: Katheryn M. Linduff
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher:

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This text covers the early experimentation with metals and alloys and on production of metal artifacts which helps to understand the emergence of early Chinese
Metalworking in Bronze Age China
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Peng Peng
Categories: Bronze founding
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

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"This is the first study that adopts a comprehensive, thorough, and interdisciplinary approach toward early Chinese lost-wax castings. With more than 80 images,
Copper and Bronze Metallurgy in Late Prehistoric Xinjiang
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Jianjun Mei
Categories: Crafts & Hobbies
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

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Xinjiang was an important area for connections between the east and west of Central Asia, most notably in terms of metallurgical innovations and metal objects.
Metalworking Technology and Deterioration of Jin Bronzes from the Tianma-Qucun Site, Shanxi, China
Language: en
Pages: 438
Authors: Quanyu Wang
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

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A detailed technical study of 47 bronze fragments excavated from the site of Tianma-Qucun in the south-west Shanxi province of China, an early capital of the Ji