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Born in 1949 in Hwanghaedo, North Korea, Sohn’s father had already died when he was born. He eventually fled to the South with his mother in 1950 when the Korean War (1950-53) broke out. He didn’t ...

Lacquerware, an ancient decorative technique, involves coating objects with natural sap from lacquer trees. China is considered its birthplace, as evidenced by findings from the Jingtoushan site in ...

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IN 1883 Yoshida 1 discovered, in the latex of the Japanese lacquer tree (Rhus vernicifera), a thermolabile substance which was responsible for the darkening and hardening of the lacquer.