| Description |
xiv, 430 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; v. 100 |
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Sinica Leidensia ; v. 100.
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| Note |
"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. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Printing -- China -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
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Books -- China -- History -- 400-1450 -- Congresses.
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Block books, Chinese -- History -- Congresses.
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China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279 -- Congresses.
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China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Chia, Lucille.
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De Weerdt, Hilde Godelieve Dominique.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789004192287 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9789004193864 (electronic bk.) |
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