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"title": "Art, A Means to World Understanding",
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"title": "China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.",
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"citation": "Hollis, Howard C. \u201cA Chinese Wooden Head.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 6 (1936): 97\u201399.",
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"citation": "Munro, Thomas. Oriental Aesthetics. Cleveland: Press of Western Reserve University, 1965.",
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