"Originally presented as a series of Mellon lectures at the National Gallery of Art, Ten Thousand Things combines aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations to make a new statement about Chinese art and society."--Jacket
"Originally presented as a series of Mellon lectures at the National Gallery of Art, Ten Thousand Things combines aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations to make a new statement about Chinese art and society."--Jacket.
In their quest for a "rational" workplace, turn-of-the-century engineers and industrial architects recast the factory itself in the image of the machine. Indeed, they considered the factory building the "master machine," containing and coordinating all of the machinery within. S…
