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Made of 83% copper and 17% tin, the Shang Bronze is considered as “undoubtedly the finest things of their sort in the world.” Creel says: “In fact, they (the Shang bronze ritual vessels) are probably the most exquisite objects which men have ever created from metal, regardless of time or place.” (The Birth of China, p. 108).
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Shih, H. (2020). Beginnings of Chinese Thought. In: Wu, H. (eds) An Outline of the History of Chinese Thought by Hu Shih. China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60895-1_1
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