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I’m interested in suggesting a new hierarchy by subverting the status of things. By changing the size of microorganisms which are seemed to be the smallest substance, I want this subversion to reaffirm our relationship with materials.

I had recently inherited a bunch of books and magazines from my grandparent. Many of which were issues of "Country Beautiful", a magazine was dedicated landscape photography. Many of these images don't even seem to exist on a database or website…

This work is thematically similar to "Lucid Landscape I". The reason for the subject matter in this comes from the vague similarities and differences western mesas have. Each, like a mountain, is visually define-able and can be grouped together has…

This book explores the transitions in rulership in late Yuan China beginning with a break with the empire founded by Genghis Khan and ending with the Yuan’s diminished power over China proper and finally the collapse of the dynasty. Critical to this…

This work looks into the Chinese social system for clues to the origin of the Ming autocracy, focusing on the role of Confucian doctrines in the rise of the Ming. He examines the elite stratum within Chinese society and the community of men broadly…

In this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty, Dardess describes the rise and development of T'ai-ho village kinship, family lineage, landscape, agriculture, and economy. He follows the careers of a large number of native…

The author details the sufferings of a militant Confucianist group known as the "Donglin Faction", who suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. The author compares the Donglin affair to the events that took place in…