Not That Kind of Big Men: A Response to Lukas Nickel's Interpretation of the Term da ren 大人 in Lintao 臨洮

Lukas Nickel's article “The First Emperor and Sculpture in China” in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (2013) has drawn significant attention to the issue of Hellenistic influence on the making of the terracotta warriors excavated from the mausoleum of the First Emperor...

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Main Author: Chen, Frederick Shih-Chung (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: American Oriental Society 2021
In: Journal of the American Oriental Society
Year: 2021, Volume: 141, Issue: 2, Pages: 427-436
IxTheo Classification:BE Greco-Roman religions
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
KBM Asia
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