Knowledge and text production in an age of print : China, 900-1400 / / edited by Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt.

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Superior document:Sinica Leidensia, v. 100
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Sinica Leidensia ; v. 100.
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Physical Description:xiv, 430 p. :; ill.
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.
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Table of 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.