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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: allure of the mirror
    sub title: mass consumption of fine things in the Han empire
  name:
    name part: Guo, Yanlong
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.
  abstract: "In Han China (202 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), few luxury objects were as widely coveted and consumed as bronze mirrors. The unprecedented and exponential growth of mirror consumption is evidenced by the abundance of specular metal discs dispersed across major museum collections in North America and excavated by Chinese archaeologists in recent decades. These mirrors, carrying diverse decorative and inscriptional patterns, were enjoyed by aristocrats and commoners alike. Mirrors Entangled , the first scholarly monograph on the bronze mirrors circulated across the early Chinese empire, foregrounds the seemingly trivial objects at center stage in Han society by revealing the physical, economic, and semiotic entanglements between mirrors and their users. I demonstrate that these specular discs were commodities acquired as personal possessions and gifts by people across different social classes. Reconstructing the lives and afterlives of Han mirrors, I argue that they embodied different dimensions of experience as intimate objects, bright discs, auspicious amulets, and funerary articles"--
  table of contents: Making mirrors -- Distributing mirrors -- Handling intimate mirrors -- Seeing in bright mirrors -- Inscribing auspicious mirrors -- Gifting precious mirrors -- Buying familiar mirrors -- Appendix. Typology and chronology of Han mirrors.
  note: Yanlong Guo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Bronze mirrors
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: To 618
  subject:
    topic: Material culture
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Bronze mirrors
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Material culture
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    geographic: China
  classification: NK8440.2.C6 G85 2025
  classification: 739.5/12
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Tang center series in early China
  identifier: 9780231217781
  identifier: 0231217781
  identifier: 9780231561891
  identifier: 2024058343
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241204
    record change date: 20251108171408.1
    record identifier: in00005669147
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng