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An Ideology of One: The Offering Shrine of Wu Liang - Wu Hung, The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1989).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2015

Patricia Berger*
Affiliation:
Asian Art Musuem, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118

Abstract

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