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Ten Thousand Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art by Lothar Ledderose, Chinese workers in the third century b.c. created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century a.d., Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China exported more than a hundred million pieces of porcelain to the West. As these examples show, the Chinese throughout history have produced works of art in astonishing quantities--and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. How have they managed this? Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. As he reveals, these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought--in the idea that the universe consists of ten thousand categories of things, for example--and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization. Ledderose begins with the modular system "par excellence: Chinese script, an ancient system of fifty thousand characters produced from a repertoire of only about two hundred components. He shows how Chinese artists used related modular systems to create ritual bronzes, to produce the First Emperor's terracotta army, and to develop the world's first printing systems. He explores the dazzling variety of lacquerware and porcelain that the West found so seductive, and examines how works as diverse as imperial palaces and paintings of hell relied on elegant variation of standardized components. Ledderose explains that Chinese artists, unlike their Westerncounterparts, did not seek to reproduce individual objects of nature faithfully, but sought instead to mimic nature's ability to produce limitless "numbers of objects.
Trout at Ten Thousand Feet: Reflections of a Passionate Fisherman by John Bailey, Trout at Ten Thousand Feet is an exciting, often humorous book, that brilliantly captures the magical, mysterious, and addictive nature of fishing and introduces us to a motley collection of characters from around the globe. Written with great enthusiasm, humility, respect for the wild, and above all with a tremendous sense of fun and energy, Trout at Ten Thousand Feet is a fascinating and compelling read--perfect for all anglers whose experiences or aspirations have taken them beyond the river bank.
Ten thousand years - The phrase (live for) ten thousand years () in Chinese, banzai (万歳) in Japanese, and manse (만세; 萬世) in Korean was used to bless emperors in East Asia. It can be repeated multiple times (in China, it was customary to pay respects to the Emperor by saying "Wànsuì, wànsuì, wànwànsuì"; the last one indicates ten thousand ten thousands, or 100 million years). Upper ten thousand - Upper Ten Thousand was a term used in the late 19th century to denote Britain's ruling elite; those rich and landed persons and families, titled and untitled, who were thought to control the vast majority of the country's political and financial system. This term included not simply the landed gentry or aristocracy, and the peerage, but also the rich industrialists and financiers of the day. Ten Thousand Bedrooms - Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957) was Dean Martin's first movie in the wake of the dissolution of his partnership with Jerry Lewis in the team of Martin and Lewis, and was such a notorious bomb that it nearly snuffed his huge film career in one fell swoop. The phalanxes of pundits who'd predicted that Martin was finished without Lewis knew they were right when this film was released. Ten thousand smiles - ==The Ten Thousand Smiles Movement== tenthousand |
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