Artisans in early imperial China

University of Washington Press

2007

x, 394 p.

9780295987132

Artisans in society -- Artisans in the workshop -- Artisans in the marketplace -- Artisans at court -- Artisans in irons.

In Artisans in Early Imperial China, Anthony Barbieri-Low combines historical, epigraphic, and archaeological analysis to refocus our gaze from the glittering objects and monuments of China to the men and women who made them. This book represents the first in-depth social history of artisans in early China

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