Format:
1 online resource (446 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004193864
Series Statement:
Sinica Leidensia Ser. v.100
Content:
The essays in this volume seek to flesh out the diversity of Chinese textual production during the period spanning the tenth and fourteenth centuries when printing became a widely used technology.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One Change: Interpreting Accumulation in Text Production and Collecting -- To Count Grains of Sand on the Ocean Floor: Changing Perceptions of Books and Learning in the Song Dynasty -- Book Collecting in Jiangxi during the Song Dynasty -- Part Two Quantification: Administrative and Religious Book Production -- Early Printing in China Viewed from the Perspective of Local Gazetteers -- Early Buddhist Illustrated Prints in Hangzhou -- The Uses of Print in Early Quanzhen Daoist Texts -- Part Three Choice: Media and Interoperability in the Production of Technical Knowledge -- Governance through Medical Texts and the Role of Print -- The Cultural Logics of Map Reading: Text, Time, and Space in Printed Maps of the Song Empire -- Part Four Control: The Art of Recycling History in Print -- Chen Jun's Outline and Details: Printing and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Pedagogical Histories -- Challenging Official History in the Song and Yuan Dynasties: the Record of the Three Kingdoms -- Afterword: Rethinking Western Printing with Chinese Comparisons -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004192287
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Knowledge and text production in an age of print Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2011 ISBN 900419228X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004192287
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
China
;
Blockbuch
;
Buchdruck
;
Geschichte 800-1400
;
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Chia, Lucille 1958-
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