Ten Thousand Things
An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized parts
Chinese workers in the third century BCE created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century CE, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. As these ex...
An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized parts
Chinese workers in the third century BCE created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century CE, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. As these ex...
