The allure of the mirror : mass consumption of fine things in the Han empire /

"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 exca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Guo, Yanlong (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2025]
Series:	Tang center series in early China.
Subjects:	Bronze mirrors > China > History > To 618. Material culture > Social aspects > China > History > To 1500. Bronze mirrors > History. Material culture > Social aspects China

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.