Dan Seitz

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The Terracotta Warriors themselves are stiff and anatomically inaccurate. However, the eleven figures of acrobats, weightlifters or dancers, discovered in a separate pit in 1999 (dozens more are still being restored), are a different matter. Only the Greeks at this time were capable of such anatomically well-observed renderings of the human body.
The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
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