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Knowledge and text production in an age of print : China, 900-1400
Title
Knowledge and text production in an age of print : China, 900-1400 / edited by Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt.
ISBN
9789004192287 (hardback : alk. paper)
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011, ©2011.
Physical Description
xiv, 430 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes
"The essays in this volume come mostly out of the conference, 'First Impressions: The Cultural History of Print in Imperial China (8th-14th centuries),' that took place at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, June 25-27, 2007"--Acknowledgements.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 16, 2011
Series
Sinica Leidensia, volume 100
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
To count grains of sand on the ocean floor : changing perceptions of books and learning in the Song dynasty / Ronald Egan
Book collecting in Jiangxi during the Song dynasty / Joseph P. McDermott
Early printing in China viewed from the perspective of local gazetteers / Joseph Dennis
Early Buddhist illustrated prints in Hangzhou / Shih-shan Susan Huang
The uses of print in early Quanzhen Daoist texts / Lucille Chia
Governance through medical texts and the role of print / TJ Hinrichs
The cultural logics of map reading : text, time and space in printed maps of the Song empire / Hilde De Weerdt
Chen Jun's Outline and details : printing and politics in thirteenth-century pedagogical histories / Charles Hartman
Challenging official history in the Song and Yuan dynasties : the record of the Three Kingdoms / Anne E. McLaren
Afterword : rethinking western printing with Chinese comparisons / Ann Blair.
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