From God’s hand to the hand of the artisan: the turned ivory sphere and the polyhedron in Qing China
This article focuses on the mechanized worldview of eighteenth-century China as expressed in the multilayered, geometric, turned ivory spheres known as guigong qiu (magic or demon’s-work ball), a name which implies that the balls were not created by human hands. Although these turned ivory spheres i...
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2022
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Studies in Chinese Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 202-237 |
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