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Ledderose, Lothar

Introduction

Ledderose, Lothar, (2000) "Introduction" from Ledderose, Lothar, Ten thousand things : module and mass production in Chinese art pp.1-8,215, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press ©

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Thetwoquotationsthatbegin[hisbook(pagei),which

togetherserveasits

underlyingmotto,

arcfrom,

respectively ShaoYong,

Guanwu

waipian(Outerchapter

onobservationofthings),inHlwngji jingshi,

31166;and

ZhouDunyi,Tai)i tushuo (Diagramofthesupreme

ultimate

explained),

in

Zhou

Dunyi

and

ZhangZai,

Z/wu Zhang4uanshll, vol. 1,47.

Introduction

The

comprehensivedictionary

Zhongwcn da

cidian

contains49,90')characters.

2 Shaughnessy,

1

ching,"216.

3. forLeihnizs0646-17]6) fascinationwiththeYUing,

secl\lungellll,

Curious' Land,

especially

318-28.

4.

for

thiscaveatYunJusi (CloudDwellingMonastery),

seeTsukamoto,"HazanUngo-.li"

5. JulienandChampion,Industries, 453.

6. "Tousces

peuplcs

etaientautrefois

bien

supcrieUl's

a

nospeuplcsoccidentauxdanstouslesartsdel'esprit

etdela

main.Mais

que

nousanll1SregagncIe

temps

perdu

'

Lespaysloccidentaux1 .fontdevenuesles

premiers

paysde la [erre.'Voltaire, Elsai,vol. 18(Du

}apon),283r

7.

furd,

"Mass

Production."

I

would

liketothank

ProfessorRobertBagleyforthisrefen:nce.

8.

for

the

principleofmodularity in

animalsand

humans,secGould,Eight LittkPiggies,

254-60.

fodor,Modldarity,

37,47,and128,entertains

the

possibilityofinformational encapsulationincognitive

modularinputsystems,butsupposes thatcentral

cognitiveprocessesarcnon

modular.

9.

In

hisessay"The\VorkofArt

in

theAgeofMechanical

Reproduction," firstpuhlishedin1936.

10. E.g"Belting,Lillcncss andPresence. foraspecific

critiqueofBenjamin,seeBredekamp,"Ocrsimulicrle

Bcnpmin."

11. Bryson,Vision andPainting, 1,

takes

the

competition

bet\veenZeuxisandParrhasiusashisstartingpointin

analyzingmimesisasacoreissuc

inWestern

art.

hapter The

System of Script

I. ThistopicwasfirstpresentedinLedderose,"Modul

undSerie."andinLedderose,"ZimuyudaliangSheng

chan" Theterm

ten thousand things (wanwu)

refersto

categoriesof

things

ratherthan tosingleitems.Seethe

translationsin Rollikc,

"Sclbll-Erweisung,"

passim.

Notes

2.

S l c l l / ~ J r Ihe XLlclI1mi Pagoda

ofDharmaMasterData

(Dala/ashiXlianmiia b ~ i l ofA.ll. 841,

now

in the

forestor SteleinXian(Xianbeilin) SeeLiuBoqing,

LiLl ti, 5-6.

3. Foradetaileddiscussionofthe"EightLawsinthe

Characteryong" (vongZi buiel), secfUJiwara,Sho/u, solnt

S W LL vol.2,:)-4il.

4. The

thirteenth-centurytheoristChenSi quotes

the

eighth-centurywriterLi Yangbingtelling the

story

Reference in Driscoll

and

Toda,ChineseCalligraphv,

36-38.

5. forthe

engrawdsutra

stonesat [heYunlusi,see

Ledderose, "Ein Programm."

6. forvisual

perception

asan

information-processing

problem,secMarr,Vision.

7.

for

types

and

styles

in

calligraphy,secLedderose,

l.,li Fu, 7-9.

8. Boltz,Origin. An

intriguing

findarcele\'Cn characters

incisedonaceramicshard,believedbysome

[

belong

tothe

Longshanculture

(ca 2000ll.C.)

Shandongdaxue,"ShandongZouping."

9. SunHaibo, e d ] i u ~ L l w c n bian 1965,thestandard

dictionaryofscripton oraclebones,contains

4,672

characters,

2,949

ofwhichare

notdeciphered

or

classified Sec Keightlcy,Sou rces,59n.8.

10. Basedon the

breakdown

ofasample

of

I

,226graphs

intothesix traditionalcategoriesofcharacter

composition (lwshu)

madebyLi

Xiaodingin1968.

QuotedbyKeightley, Sourccs,

68n.49.

11

for

atranscriptionofthetext intomoderngraphssee

Keightlcy,SOllrCe.l,

fig.

12.

12.

Zhang

Guangyu'1nhas

argued

thattheoracle

bone

scriptisa

kind

ofsimplifiedscripttype,andthatthe

differencebetween it andthe

bronze

scriptisone

of

function,

notofchronology.SeeZhangGuangyuan,

"Shang

Zhou

Jinwcn."

13. BeginningphaseoftheMiddleWesternZhoudynasty,

ca.

il75-il25

l

for

thedate,secRawson,Western

ZhmlRilualBronzes, 19.Translationsoftheinscription

in

Shaughnessy,Sources,

3-4,and

\Vu,Monumentality,

93-94.

Morereferences

to

the

inscription,ibid.,

300n.86.

14. ForaGermantranslation

and

discussionoftheYishal1

bei inscription,seeEckhardSchneider,"Schrift," in

Ledderose

and

Schlombs,cds.,]cmcitsclcr G r o f ~ C I 1

Maw'l; 243-48.

15. Bodde,"TheState

and

EmpireofCh'in,"

56-58.

16.

Huangtil1?,

ling, Waijin?,}il1g

(Bookoftheyellowcourt,

bookoftheouterview),wrilleninA D 356.Sec

Ledderose,Mi Fu, 70 f

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