Metalworking in Bronze Age China: The Lost-Wax Process
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Table of Contents

List of Figures

ix

Acknowledgments

xxxiii

Introduction

1

Chapter 1: What Is Lost-wax Casting?

5

Chapter 2: Metalworking in Bronze Age China

13

Chapter 3: Was Lost-wax Casting Used in Bronze Age China?

41

Chapter 4: Further Confirmed Lost-wax Castings I

49

Chapter 5: Further Confirmed Lost-wax Castings II

63

Chapter 6: Further Confirmed Lost-wax Castings III

99

Chapter 7: Design as the Driving Force

129

Chapter 8: The Origin of the Lost-wax Technique in Bronze Age China

143

Chapter 9: Coda

167

Chronology

191

Figures

195

Character Glossary

417

Bibliography

429

Index

459

About the Author

471

Cambria Sinophone World Series

473